The world’s largest festival of public science talks, Pint of Science, comes to Birmingham from 22-24 May.

The Pint of Science festival will see 31 scientists take to the stage in venues, including pubs, cafes and community halls, across the city.

The three-day festival has grown astronomically since its inception, and 2023  will see its tenth anniversary with events in over 25 countries and hundreds of cities around the world. Each night will provide a unique line up of talks, demonstrations and live experiments held in a relaxed and informal environment.

University of Birmingham researchers will be speaking at venues across the city, including KILO ZERO (the UK’s first zero waste café bar and taproom), the Hop Garden, the Night Owl and the MAC.

Attendees in Birmingham will enjoy a variety of exciting talks including: the ways in which scientists recreate the conditions of space here in a laboratory on Earth; how rhythmic bounces in brain activity known as “neural oscillations” create lifelong memories (and why attending a rave could help protect you from Alzheimer’s disease); and if an orangutan who has lost her wild behaviours is still an orangutan.

Alongside the main talks, this year audiences go head-to-head in the largest ever multi-city pub quiz, in association with interactive quiz company, Kwizzbit. Teams in each venue compete against others across the city and the rest of the UK as they tackle a series of science-themed questions to prove which city has the strongest trivia knowledge.

Tickets cost £5 and are available via pintofscience.co.uk