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Welcome to the festival of ideas and discovery

8 June 2016

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Where Excel London
When 22 – 25 September 2016
What Talks, debates, exhibits, demonstrations. Interact with the latest technology and engage with 100 of the world’s most original thinkers

Come and see…

Earth zone: See the future, change the future

Innovate UK

Engineers and architects have long built models to see their next big creation and iron out problems before construction starts. Innovate UK’s Transport Systems Catapult is taking this idea to a new level: using big data and virtual reality to model entire cities to gauge the impact of future changes.

The “Manchester Table” is an interactive map of the city below which sit layers…

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