Why shouldn’t you put a blanket on a cold blooded animal?
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...
Read moreHi 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...
Read more“There’s something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge” – Sally Ride. Sally Ride, the first female...
Read moreAnother 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...
Read moreThis 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...
Read moreNope, 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...
Read moreKids hear about black holes on science fiction shows and films in which they are shown to be incredibly complex, near-mystical objects with the...
Read moreFor 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...
Read moreIt seems our previous post asking why the sea is salty inspired some further curiosity and we’ve been asked how fish know when it’s time to go...
Read moreThere is salt everywhere: in the soil, in rocks, in living things. Rivers carry this salt into the seas and it gets stuck there because there’s...
Read moreTo celebrate the fantastic supermoon that graced our skies yesterday, we’re tackling a common question about our closest cosmic neighbour...
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