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Posted 28/02/2017

“The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented” – Dennis Gabor. Dennis Gabor was a Hungarian-British engineer and...

Posted 26/02/2017

Welsh ICE families put science up their sleeve For those outside of Wales, half term might seem like a long-distant memory, but here in...

Posted 24/02/2017

It might have been difficult to notice through Storm Doris yesterday, but with every day there is a sunrise and a sunset. In between, the familiar...

Posted 22/02/2017

We’re all about fun kids’ science activities and making discoveries through play. It encourages scientific understanding, it develops...

Posted 21/02/2017

“What makes us human, I think, is our ability to ask questions” – Jane Goodall. Jane Goodall probably understands the boundary...

Posted 14/02/2017

“Science is a quest for understanding.” – Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell. When Jocelyn Bell Burnell was a postgraduate student she...

Posted 10/02/2017

If your child asks you this question, don’t feel you actually need to know the answer. Nobody knows, which makes it a great question. Forget UFOs...

Posted 08/02/2017

As we like to say at Letterbox Lab, science is weird, messy and fun to play with, but science is also one of those precious things in life that...

Posted 07/02/2017

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and about what makes the universe exist. Be...

Posted 06/02/2017

Hi science fans, Mia here. Usually Bryan writes the blog posts but this topic is especially close to my heart, as someone who is a relatively...

Posted 24/01/2017

“There’s something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge” – Sally Ride. Sally Ride, the first female...

Posted 18/01/2017

Another question that came to us through our blog, and it’s a beauty. I love the thought of a kid looking at a snake and thinking “how does that...