[3] The Manchester Evening News describe the festival as “one of the most fun things to happen to the region in recent years, taking practical science into places you never imagined possible all over the city”.
The ninth annual science festival highlights included an adult only ball pool,[7] artist Tania Kovats premiering Evaporation,[8] Brian Cox, Robin Ince and Jon Culshaw recording The Infinite Monkey Cage,[9] exhibition Kinetic Flux by Paul Miller and Griet Beyart[10] and a two-day drone expo with the University of Salford’s Andy Miah.
[11] The ball pool won Manchester Evening News’ City Life Awards Special Events Category 2015.
[20] The experiment was conceived by Jonathan Swinton[21] and led by Erinma Ochu at the Museum of Science and Industry, who said that "we hope to provide the missing evidence to test Turing's little-known theories about Fibonacci numbers in sunflowers.
[22] Citizen scientists from seven countries participated, growing over 500 sunflowers, over 450 of which conformed to the Fibonacci sequence, thereby proving Alan Turing's theory.
Launched at the 2013 Manchester Science Festival with Ashley Burgoyne from the University of Amsterdam, audiences were encouraged to play a free, online game that produced results for scientific research.
[24] Results presented at the 2014 Manchester Science Festival revealed the UK's top ten catchiest tunes, looking at just how memorable parts of songs can be.