Soil is important in all our lives. The Soil-Net stand showed what soil is, the teeming life it contains, what it does, and the many environmental threats facing our soils.

Scientists from the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital are cooking pieces of liver to demonstrate an improved cancer-killing technique – heating body tissue to up to 80 degrees C.

City College, Norwich, threws open its laboratories and invites the world in to enjoy science – owl pellets, sugar attracting balloons and more!

Members of the public in the Jarrold department store in Norwich chose to have their irises scanned, as part of the BA Festival of Science.

Norwich Cathedral was buzzing with hundreds of people wanting to TRY science, organised by Norwich City Council as the opening event at the BA Festival of Science.

Visitors of Norwich Castle gained through-the-lens views of all manner of microscopic collections - fossils and lice to wool and cloth.

BA President Frances Cairncross announces new plans to get students interested in maths at her Presidential Address at the BA Festival of Science in Norwich.

European countries are beginning to see diseases which have traditionally been confined to warmer climate. Paul Hunter, Professor of Health Protection at the University of East Anglia, will reveal all.

Meet George, a chatbot. An embodiment of artificial intelligence, he chats with humans in a way designed to be interesting and entertaining.

The UK needs to invest in new sports technology as well as in athletes to win more medals at the 2012 Olympics. "Success breeds success," explained Dr Claire Davis at the BA Festival of Science today. "When you have top athletes, you’ll tend to continue to fund that area."

Many medicinal plant species are under threat from over-exploitation by people who sell drugs from plants. "Consumers of herbal medicines may inadvertently be complicit in the overexploitation of threatened plant species", Dr Sarah Edwards told the BA Festival of Science.

Did you know that some bacteria can survive 11 km up in the sky, by growing ice crystals around themselves? Or that scientists are examining how plants harvest the sun’s energy to find inspiration for new solar fuel cells?

The opening lines set the tone for Science in a Suitcase: "If you thought you were coming to a serious science lecture, leave now". The interactive performance played to a full house at the Norwich Arts Centre

What do we see when we look at a photograph or painting of our favourite scientist? The study of portraits of scientists is a fascinating subject; portraits do not necessarily tell us the truth, but can tell us how the identity and reputation of a scientist may be created and promoted in a painting.

Plants have been used in medicine by humans for thousands of years. But now it is recognised that our natural pharmacy is under threat from over-harvesting, under-investment from the West and deforestation.

Identifying more sustainable forms of transport was the challenge set to the public during a workshop organised by Dr Lorraine Whitmarsh of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change at the University of East Anglia.

The first x-change of the Festival produced its dependable mix of entertaining and astounding speakers covering plasticine brains, visual illusions, giant bubbles and the supernatural.

The government’s chief scientific adviser thinks that God is a bit of a chatterbox. Sir David King said that in his opinion, seven commandments is all you need.

Continual burning of fossil fuels could allow the big systems that support life on Earth to tip over into a new configuration in which Greenland loses its glaciers, ocean currents alter and sea level rises by many metres.

Shoppers in Castle Mall have been building models of molecules, inventing their own molecules, and even having their photos taken with their creations.

Curators at Norwich Castle Museum take visitors back stage to view rare collections of a hippopotamus skull, tiny parasitic wasps and a two-meter-plus-long alligator.

Climate change, bird flu and ESP – BA Festival of Science goers were treated to an impressive line-up at Tuesday evening’s X-Change hosted by broadcaster Quentin Cooper.

Professor Matthew Lambon Ralph explains the importance of semantic dementia to a packed audience when he gave the BA’s Charles Darwin Award Lecture.

Science can be at home with religion - that's what was tried to be shown at Norwich Cathedral; a recurring theme of debate in this year’s Festival.

Most of us grew up with the saying ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away.’ But in the UK today, we are more likely to be advised to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables per day. However, research shows that in the UK most of us rarely achieve our daily target.

Have you ever heard your mobile beep and just ‘known’ who’s sent you a message? If you have, you’re not alone and a brand new series of interactive experiments to investigate this phenomenon were announced yesterday.

Last night saw eminent fertility expert and well-known broadcaster Professor – and Lord - Robert Winston give us a glimpse of his busy life.

"We are like rich kids living on a large inheritance and writing cheques, without ever checking the balance." This is the image Professor Paul Erlich used to describe the way in which our modern society uses the planets resources.

A panel of scientists and policy makers led a discussion yesterday about the problems facing woman scientists during their careers as part of the BA Festival of Science.

Flooding is the perfect interdisciplinary science. Its geographical and geological aspects are crudely obvious, but we need environmental science to understand its ecological impact, and the social sciences to understand and support affected human communities.

"Should we be sending humans into space?". Space scientists and particle physicists argue we should first define the scientific goals of a mission, and then ask whether humans are needed to achieve those goals.

The UEA was host to a very special event this week with the arrival of some majestic creatures of the avian kind.

All decisions require problems to be solved. Psychologists took us through research on simple problems through to real life situations where bad decisions have ended in disaster and fuzzy thinking has worsened catastrophic situations.

Science touches many aspects of our lives yet we rarely get a chance to find out about world class research that is going on under our noses. ‘Science on your doorstep’ aimed to change that.

Is science education patronising or informative? Is it better to 'engage' in a dialogue with the public or to take the gloves off and have a proper fight? These were the issues debated in "Whatever Happened to the Science Wars?".

Most health professionals are advising the UK population to increase fish consumption. But fish stocks are becoming exhausted, leading some EU nations to infiltrate the territorial waters of poorer countries. Are fish that important, and is it both safe and ethical to eat fish?

You’re running late – you’ve got to get the kids out the door for school, find the report that has to be in to your boss by 9am and someone’s moved the car keys. Stressed? Or are you…

Science Cafes invited us to "reproduce the discussions that took place in Vienna cafes during the early 20th century, where famous physicists and philosophers sat drinking coffee and debating issues with the public".

Even in particle physics leaves you cold, the Larege Hadron Collider is impressive engineering by any standard. 27km in circumference it will be switched on next year to answer some very simple questions about life on earth.

Ground-breaking research into a possible new cure for cancer was revealed by Professor David Russell at the British Association Festival of Science in Norwich.

With conflicting newspaper reports on the benefits and harms of diet in relation to health, it’s not surprising that many people become sceptical about what science can really tell us about what we are eating. So what is the truth?

The Ergonomics Society brought together four rather different examples of work aimed at improving the ease and safety of travel.

Computers get faster, more capable and more universal all the time. But the law moves at a snail’s pace by comparison. Stefan Fafinski demonstrated the ill-effects of this one-sided race.

Some 35 BA supporters joined staff and officers of the BA to discuss the successes and challenges of the BA over the past year and what the future holds.

Few are aware of the illegal cartels that can exist between executives of rival companies who hold shadowy meetings and plan to fix prices at the expense of their own customers. What are the authorities doing, and do we need their intervention?

UEA played host to three marine institutions based in Plymouth who shared the wonders of the ocean realm with Norwich and inspire over 120 school children.

A poster session with a difference. Young scientists explore the impacts of their work will have on society. Volcanoes, music therapy, neutrinos, schizophrenia were all explored.

Chemistry wore a different façade today, as the all singing and dancing Detective Teacup and his faithful assistant Penny from the science show ‘The Big Drip’ set out to solve the mystery of the missing material.

In today’s society, emotions are often seen as the enemy of rationality, clouding our judgements. However, there are times when emotions can help us to make better decisions.

In a new exhibition launched during the BA Festival of Science the biological process of ‘making faces’ is explored, while also showing how our brains ‘make faces’ during recognition and interpretation of facial expressions.

If you believe that mathematics could not be more different from the arts, think again. At the BA Festival of Science audiences were persuaded that maths and the arts are deeply interconnected and have provided mutual inspiration throughout history.

You wouldn’t normally consider a volcanic hot spring as a place to find any life forms, considering that the temperatures in the water can reach 90 degrees Celsius. But micro-organisms have been found living in these waters