There are plenty of cool events coming up at the Cambridge Science Festival, guaranteed to appeal to the teenage audience. Top of the agenda are two shows coming up at the ADC.

The Gravity Project (ADC Theatre, Park Street, Sunday, 18 March, 2.30-3.30 pm) is an exciting piece of new theatre devised and performed by actor and mime artist Ben Samuels, who has worked for the Science Museum.

A sideways take on one of the fundamental laws of science (discovered by Isaac Newton in Cambridge 320 years ago), the Gravity Project explores how this invisible force keeps out feet on the ground, and our alarm clocks on the bedside table, and what it might be like for us if we floated free.

Later on Sunday, 18 March (ADC Theatre, 7.45pm), a trio of wickedly wacky scientists take to the floor in Cabaret: Science of Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n' Roll – recommended for those aged 16 and over.

Dr Sex is a chemist mad about molecules, Dr Drugs is an expert on the body and its language, and Dr Rock is a physicist whose stage performances defy the laws of science. Performers include a Big Brother psychologist and a previous winner of science's answer to the X-Factor, Famelab.

Both these shows require booking and tickets cost £5 (£4 concessions). Phone the ADC on 01223 300085 to book.

It's OK to laugh at science (sometimes) – and many serious research projects have their funny side. Prizes for “science that makes you laugh and then think” will be awarded at the Ig Nobel Prize Show at the Babbage Lecture Hall on Saturday, 17 March at 3 pm.

Come along and hear Ig Nobel winners try to make sense of what they did and how they did it. The show also features the mini-opera “Inertia Makes the World Go Around”. Phone 01223 766766 or email csf@admin.cam.ac.uk to book for the Ig Nobel Prize Show: no charge.

Teenagers won over to the accidental hilarity of science may be tempted to the distinctly more sane Top Talks series held in venues at the University's West Cambridge Site on 24 March and aimed at ages 14 and up. They include a presentation by Dr Jim McElwaine called Avalanche! in which he explains how he launched half a million ping-pong balls down a ski jump to understand how snow moves.

While on the West Cambridge Site, drop in at the Physics Zone at the world-famous Cavendish Laboratory to get stuck into some hands-on experiments, meet leading scientists, and marvel at images from the most powerful telescopes in the world.

Science in Cambridge is seldom dull.

To see the Cambridge Science Festival Programme go to www.cambridgescience.co.uk or phone 01223 766766.

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