Manchester Science Festival 2011
22 - 30 October 2011


Turing's Sunflowers

Get involved in a mass experiment and plant sunflowers to help us solve one of Turing's final mathematical riddles...

Start planting now

 

 

Relive the Festival experience...

Listen to the 2011 Manchester Science Festival podcasts!

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See some of our photos...

From the 2011 Festival to see if you were snapped during our half-term fun and share your Festival photos on Flickr

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Watch our Festival film...

Or see our interviews with Professor Brian Cox

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Art meet science

Space-craft!

Download our space-themed knitting and crochet patters and stitch your very own solar system...

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Our next events...

Radiolaria – a group of single celled organisms

Alan Turing and Life’s Enigma

Sat 24 Mar 2012 to Sun 18 Nov 2012

Sunflower

Plant a Turing Sunflower at MOSI

Sun 20 May 2012 2pm - 4pm

Future Manchester

Science meets Fiction

Fri 6 Jul 2012 1pm - 3pm

Latest news...

Natalie's sunflower

Ready, set, plant!

23 April 2012

Our new project Turing's Sunflowers has officially launched and we need your help to contribute to our exciting experiment in honour of mathematician Alan Turing...

BBC ONE

Turing's Sunflowers on The One Show

15 March 2012

Our new mass experiment Turing's Sunflowers was featured on The One Show...