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Posted 04/03/2019

It’s that time of the year again – fabric is strewn across living rooms nationwide as parents put the finishing touches onto World...

Posted 06/02/2019

Tomorrow is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a day designated by the UN to celebrate the achievements of women in STEM fields...

Posted 22/09/2017

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...

Posted 28/04/2017

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...

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 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 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 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 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 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 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...