Photos and videos
Check out a selection of our 2009 official Festival photos on our photo page.
You can add your own photos to our flickr group - we want to see them! We also have a You Tube channel, so let us know if you have any good videos. Please add the official tag msf10. Thanks!
Hear us tweet!
Follow us on twitter to see what we're up to on twitter @mcrscifest. If tweeting about this year's Festival, please use #msf10
Find us on Facebook
Like to catch up on Facebook? Get yourself to our Facebook page for updates, gossip, photos and more.
Festival blog
Check out updates and gossip over on our blog Manchester Science Festival blog.
Online experiments
We've launched our online experiments! We'll be finding out the science behind screaming as well as investigating if it rains more at the weekend. Get involved, be the scientist and have fun!
Do try this at home!
Watch our science buksing vidoes online and download the experiment sheets to try this at home! Go to the BBC Manchester website to download the experiement sheets.
Science and knitting?
That's right... we have a knitting event at this year's Festival. We'll be knitting microorganisms and learning about the science of swine flu, the common cold and more. If you can't make it or want to help though, we need a selection of finished products before the event for photos and as examples on the day:
Download our amazing microbe knitting patterns (PDF 2MB)
Please send your finished products to: Knitted Microbes, Manchester Science Festival, Museum of Science and Industry, Liverpool Road, Castlefield, Manchester, M3 4FP or drop them at reception with "Knitted Microbes, Manchester Science Festival" labelled on them. Be sure to include your details so we know who's helped! You can also upload your own pics to our flickr group!
Quiz time!
Does your local pub run a quiz? If so, we would like to make their planning easier and give them a free pack of questions.
There are a range of question rounds to allow everyone to flex their brain muscles and show off the facts that they have stored away for a rainy day. The rounds include 'All about Manchester', 'A Pub-lovers Round' and an 'Astronomical Music Round'.
If you would like to get a copy of the quiz please get in touch with Natalie Lane of the British Science Association (natalie.lane@britishscienceassociation.org).
Watch MSF online
We're putting together collection of Festival videos for your viewing pleasure. From Alka Seltzer rockets to Screams... check them out.
Manchester Then & Now Tour
Go walk about in Manchester and explore the city’s rich heritage. The Manchester: Then & Now, Walk Talk Tour, begins outside the Town Hall, passes the Central Library; hear about the Hallé, and how the city was at the forefront of the transport revolution – canals and railway. Discover Manchester’s overlooked Roman past. Hear about several scientific firsts pioneered in Manchester at the Museum of Science and Industry.
The tour is 2.4miles (3.8km) long and can be completed in two hours, or a day – you decide!
The Manchester: Then & Now, Walk Talk Tour costs £5 and includes a free map. Obtain a ten per cent discount using code: MF222. Expiry date 31/12/10.
Download and away you go.
Free Radical Tour
Check our this Free Radicals science tour of our wonder city.
The smell of space?
Catch this 2008 BBC Northwest Tonight report about last year's festival schools' tour and find out about research into the science of the smell of space!
IOP downloadable walking tour
The Institute of Physics have updated their MP3 walk for you to download and do around the city, highlighting places
and people of special scientific interest. Get it at Science Places.
Yellow Trail - alternative walking tour
For another view of the city, you can now download the Yellow walking tour from the Building Initiative website.
The Naked Scientists
Download Chris and chums' chart-topping science podcast! He won The Josh Award in 2007 you know...