The Cork Carnival of Science is a major public outdoor event organised by Cork County Council and held in a city-centre park. Activities run in marquees and stalls of various sizes. The event takes place annually on the second weekend of June and attracts several thousand visitors.   This year, seven members of the Galway team, led by experienced team leader Kate Ryan (also an alumna of Fantastic DNA in primary school!), travelled to Cork to join the Cell Explorers teams from

We are back from the EUSEA - European Science Engagement Association 2025 Conference in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, held on May 14–15 at the Elder Museum of Science and Technology.  Themed "Crossing Oceans – Raising Our Sails: Navigating Public Engagement in Turbulent Times", the event brought together over 130 participants from 48 countries, including researchers, science communicators, and public engagement professionals. It is exciting to have been part of the 20 members o

Fantastic DNA was delivered for the first time in Spain, to pupils and students from the univeristy of the Basque Country.

Dr Muriel Grenon and Dr Pádraig MacNeela from the University of Galway have received the 2025 ENLIGHT Impact Ambassador Awards for their research contributions after competing at the ENLIGHT Impact confernece this year. Dr Grenon was honoured for widening participation in STEM through science outreach and Dr MacNeela was recognised for the Active* Consent programme on consent and sexual violence. Awards were presented at the ENLIGHT Impact Conference at the University of Gro

Over 120 people, including adults and young people, from families accross the West of Ireland were hosted as Very Important People...

In November 2024, an educational visit of scientists from the University of Bordeaux and the University of the Basque Country was held in...

Families, community members from Galway and beyond took part in modelling their own cells, extracting banana DNA, and saving the world...

University of Galway are hosting Galway Science and Technology Festival on Sunday the 10th of November! Cell Explorers will be running...

Science Club is an exciting Cell Explorers programme in which young people in their youth groups engage in hands-on experiments over the...

We invited 5 local youth groups to Galway Atlantaquaria on Friday 24th May, after closing time! They got to see everything from an...