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Where did all the dinosaurs go?

Posted 07/12/2016 by Letterbox Lab 994

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‚Äôs pretty crazy! We have a fairly good idea of why it happened. A meteor collided with the Earth near what...

Saturday Science Snippets #4 – Happy December, Science Fans!

Posted 03/12/2016 by Letterbox Lab 987

¬†Platypus venom might help to treat diabetes The Platypus is a weird little creature. It‚Äôs like a mammal that wants to be a duck with its egg-laying, webbed feet and bill. It‚Äôs so unlike other mammals that when British scientists were first...

How do fish know when it’s bedtime?

Posted 30/11/2016 by Letterbox Lab 2463

¬† ‚ÄãIt seems our previous post asking why the sea is salty inspired some further curiosity and we‚Äôve been asked how fish know when it‚Äôs time to go to sleep! What a great question, we‚Äôve had a lot of fun pondering the answer. Fish sleep is...

ÔªøQuote of the week – Jane Goodall

Posted 29/11/2016 by Letterbox Lab 947

¬† Primatologist, ethologist and activist Jane Goodall has had her fair share of amazing adventures. Her study of chimpanzee behaviour and social interaction in Tanzania spanned 55 years, and now with the Jane Goodall Institute and a host of...

Saturday Science Snippets #3

Posted 26/11/2016 by Letterbox Lab 820

Ants farm tropical fruits Humans invented agriculture around 10,000 years ago and were probably quite proud of themselves. But for Philidris nagasau, an ant found only in Fiji, agriculture was old news ‚Äì they‚Äôve been growing their own fruit...

Saturday Science Snippets #2

Posted 19/11/2016 by Letterbox Lab 755

Nasa has a poo problem… NASA have a problem and they are looking for help. Space science has achieved a lot and solved many of the problems of getting people and machines into space. But one problem still has a very primitive ¬†solution...