Science busking offers forensic activities and crime-busting

Cowdenbeath will come alive with science busking today in advance of next week’s Fife Science Festival.

Visitors to the town’s Green Space can enjoy a free festival preview with forensic science activities demonstrating the role of fingerprinting in crime-busting and challenging youngsters to identify the bones in their body.

The Dundee Science Centre team will also showcase lots of hands-on experiments that can be replicated at home using everyday ingredients.

Activities will highlight the future of food, our health and our planet – and there will be the chance to nibble on some edible insects.

Fife Science Festival will showcase the wonders of science, covering everything from engineering and computing to wind power and our very own insides.

There will be family-friendly events encouraging visitors to get hands-on with science at Cowdenbeath leisure centre next Saturday and Sunday.

The same will be offered at the Lomond Centre, Glenrothes, the following weekend.

Fun and free, there will be something for the whole family to enjoy.

People will have the chance to meet scientists from St Andrews University as well as those working in engineering locally on each of the Saturdays.

On the Sundays, Science Adventure will let visitors explore the challenges in designing train stations, witness live demonstrations of medieval combat, learn about boat-building and investigate their own anatomy.

There will also be an opportunity to get to grips with electric engineering and discover how psychologists study how children think and learn.