With the long-awaited summer break come some travel ideas for inquiring minds looking to enjoy sightseeing and, at the same time, take science on holiday with them.
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Miguel Barral suggests…
- visiting Delft (The Netherlands) to discover the cradle of microbiology and virology, in an area renowned for its prestigious painters and famous ceramics
- strolling along the cliffs and beaches near the village of Manaccan (Cornwall, UK), where titanium was discovered by a local vicar
- wandering through the Renaissance garden of Heidelberg (Germany), which started out as the eighth wonder of the world… but was never completed.
Javier Yanes invites us to…
- discover one of the hidden gems of Florence, the Galileo Museum, to contemplate its collection of ancient scientific instruments, one of the largest in the world
- climb to the top of the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii and marvel at the futuristic image of the 13 telescopes exploring the sky
- follow the fossil trail that tells the story of the extinction of the dinosaurs from Yucatán (Mexico) to Denmark via Spain, the United States and Tunisia
- put ourselves in the shoes of one of the Apollo 11 astronauts by experiencing the launch into space from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral (Florida)
Laura Chaparro recommends…
- exploring the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (Geneva), which proved the existence of the Higgs boson
- scrutinising the cosmos from the Atacama Desert (Chile), where the European Southern Observatory’s ALMA telescope is located
- having a pint at The Eagle, the pub in Cambridge (UK) where Watson and Crick announced the discovery of the structure of DNA
- following in Marie Curie’s footsteps in her laboratory at the former Pasteur Institute, now the Curie Museum in Paris
- losing yourself in the breathtaking nature of Iceland, in search of the passage leading to the centre of the earth described by Jules Verne around the Snæfellsjökull volcano
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