This year’s Ig Nobel prizes were awarded at the “27th First Annual Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony” last week, and as always they celebrated a plethora of surprising and bewildering research. If you haven’t heard of the Ig Nobel prizes before...
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How do planes fly? Aeroplanes are amazing: heavy hunks of metal that can fly with people sitting in them! Most children seeing or travelling in one will be curious about how they work. And they’ll probably ask you about it. Gravity pulls...
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Our kids’ science questions blog series is getting a science fiction flavour again as we consider is it possible to travel faster than light. In many science fiction shows and films travelling across the Galaxy to distant stars and planets is a...
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The sky is made of air, which is obviously not blue. So, why is the sky blue? This seems like a tricky question which children ask a lot. But in two easy steps you can see for yourself the answer to this age-old question. Step 1 – Making...
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Our regular blog series providing answers to the science questions kids ask is getting a little sci-fi flavour. First in this mini-series we ask “could you build a real lightsaber?”. Every one of the last five decades has had at least one...
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