The Ig Nobel Prize: Why Silly Science Should be Celebrated
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...
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How do planes fly?
Posted 24/08/2017
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...
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Could you travel faster than light?
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...
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Why is the Sky Blue?
Posted 07/04/2017
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...
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Could you build a real lightsaber?
Posted 31/03/2017
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...
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