A HUMAN brain will be dissected in front of a live audience at this year’s Brighton Science Festival.

The demonstration by Dr Claire Smith, head of anatomy, and Catherine Hennessy, anatomy teaching fellow at Brighton Sussex Medical School at the University of Sussex, will be shown on screen for the audience and volunteers will be able to take part at some stages. It follows the dissection of a human heart at last year’s festival.

Timed for the school half-term break, this year’s festival, which takes place between October 16 and November 4 at various venues around Brighton and Hove, features more than 40 events including rocket science, a live brain dissection, a puppet show about a feminist Frankenstein, robot wars, Minecraft, designing a race track, searching for the world’s ugliest animal, astronomy, nerds and wooden automata.

Experts and educational entertainers including writer, science communicator and TV presenter Simon Watt, who also runs the Ugly Animal Preservation Society, Michael Brooks, the former editor of New Scientist magazine, and comedian Robin Ince.The festival is back for another bout of entertaining talks, eye-opening shows and hands-on workshops,” said festival director Dr Richard Robinson, right. “It has extraordinary people showing young people how to make extraordinary things.”

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