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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...

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 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 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...