“Double Science: Ground Control Hosts First Science Popularization Festival”

For the first time, Ground Control invites you to come and discover the vast world of sciencethrough fun experiences or workshops, but also games, meetings and more fun and free entertainment. The purpose of the festival Double Science : popularize a field that can sometimes seem very inaccessible to the general public, and come out full of knowledge of all kinds! Numerous speakersjournalists, researchers, popularizers, artists… will be present to accompany you in your discoveries, from 26 have 28 May 2023 !

For this edition, we take advantage of thematic routes, according to his desires: rather good student plan, family discovery or cultural outing? On site, even the cuisine becomes scientific, thanks to the food court run by the Café des Sciences or the science cocktail, a clever mix of chemistry offered to the bars of the festival. The mirror of a telescope from the Paris Observatory is installed at the heart of the festival, to observe closely, life-size, what allows us to see so far in space. Among the proposed experiments, you will be able to discover the usefulness of particle accelerators, via spectacular animations! What to take full eyes and brain, especially.