If you're passionate about Science, then this is the thread for you. Don't miss the fist in a brand-new series, The Big Experiment, starting on Thurs 6 March at 9pm. the series aims to encourage children to get more interested in Science.

How has science changed your life? What scientific gadgets or events have affected you? Share your thoughts here:

It's got great press:

Sunday Times Magazine- 'It's Top Gear meets Jamie's Kitchen. It's visually entertaining, it's socially intriguing, it's informative. It's good telly...'

Daily Mail Weekend - 'Science is a huge area of concern in education, so anything that contributes to children's enthusiasm for it is to be welcomed'

Telegraph TV and Radio - 'Science at school was never this much fun'

So don't miss it!!

It certainly looks to be a promising series, yet after having watched the first episode last night I was left feeling cringingly embarrassed at the lack of knowledge, or even of common sense, of those kids!

Obviously a group like this makes for better TV as the (hoped for) improvement throughout the series will be all that greater; it'll be interesting to see if that is indeed the case. However when we consider the thousands of other similar kids up and down the country, heaven help us all as they become the adults of the future!

I enjoyed the first episode of this programme and thought it was an interesting idea. It is true that you have to get the kids attention to teach them anything and I am sure that is what teachers all over the country do every day.

In a way I was left feeling kind of jealous. All that great equipment, a huge Tesla coil, no issues with health and safety - where I work I would have been luckt to get past exploding a hydrogen balloon. They all received nice new lab coats and cool safety specs. As a physics teacher I could only drool in envy as the pupils got to do lots of fun things with great equipment.

In a year my budget for physics is about £800. £200 goes on photocopying. About £350 goes on your run of the day stuff - batteries, wires, pencils, jotters, graph paper, glue, bulbs etc.
That leaves £250 - now by the time I replace a few damaged text books, buy something a pupil needs for the advanced higher course or fork out on essentila maintenance of equipment I am left with a stunning amount of about £100 per year for new equipment.

With that I could buy some cheap software - it wouldn't stretch to a site licence, or a few little bits and pieces. It definitely would not stretch to some of the fabulous physics equipment that is out there that would genuinely stimulate the pupils.

Great programme - just makes me very very very jealous.....

Good luck to the kids and the teachers, cannot wait to see the kids jumping off the platforms with the big balloons....

Yes loving the science - very entertaining and educational. However, my son is in Year 7 at school and is finding his science lessons frustrating because it's all too easy. Do you think that anyone would like to make a programme using children who are bright and really want to learn? Children like him would really benefit from an experience like that but are sadly often overlooked since the emphasis seems to be on the average and below average children.
Any suggestions on how to keep my son engaged in education?

I just watched the episode about space and meteors and was thrilled that the correct date was given for Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrins walk on the moon. Most programmes and news items give the date in USA instead of world time based in Greenwich.
In the past I have pointed out their error to ITN and BBC news and, when The History Channel showed The Universe series, to them and they promised a reply, which has still not arrived.
The first moon walk was at 3am GMT (4pm BST) on 21st July 1969. This was the date it was scheduled for but in order for it to take place on the same date in all USA states it was brought forward so it would be on the 6pm news on the USA west coast and on the late news on the east coast.
It has annoyed me for 39 years when it has been shown as being on 20th July.
21st July 1969 was my 24th birthday and I took the day off work and stayed up all night to see this historic moment live.
Sir Patrick Moore of The Sky at Night is the only person who has always given the correct date as well as the fact that the first TV images showed Neir Armstrong walking upwards until it was realised that the camera image was upside down and it was then switched to show the image the correct way up.
Thank you Discovery for The Big Experiment.