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Posted 17/01/2017

“What is now proved was once only imagined” – William Blake. William Blake was a visionary – a poet and artist little...

Posted 11/01/2017

This is one that lots of people get wrong, even people who know quite a bit about science. I used to train planetarium presenters at a science...

Posted 10/01/2017

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the Universe” – Carl Sagan Everything we see and touch is...

Posted 04/01/2017

Nope, not one little bit. There is a popular myth that daddy longlegs are incredibly venomous but their fangs are too small to break human skin...

Posted 03/01/2017

On Christmas day the world lost another hero of science. Vera Rubin smashed the boundaries presented to her by her gender to a pioneer of...

Posted 31/12/2016

31 million seconds is a pretty good time for a 940 million kilometre journey, so sit back and feel good about another successful orbit of our...

Posted 20/12/2016

“All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things.” Stephanie Kwolek, the inventor...

Posted 17/12/2016

Instead of our regular Saturday Science Snippets blog I thought that this week I’d give you some of our own news. Santa has come early and brought...

Posted 14/12/2016

Kids hear about black holes on science fiction shows and films in which they are shown to be incredibly complex, near-mystical objects with the...

Posted 13/12/2016

“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned” Richard Feynman was a Nobel...

Posted 10/12/2016

Chimpanzees recognise bottoms as well as faces Being able to tell friend from foe by their face has been so important to us that we have evolved...

Posted 07/12/2016

For over 150 million years there were giant reptiles running around the Earth and in a very short space of time they all disappeared. That’s...