There is much excitement in Talk Science team this week- Futurecade launches this Thursday! Futurecade is a suite of online games based on current and developing research in the fields of robotics, space junk, geo-engineering and synthetic biology. Most importantly, Futurecade’s four games Bacto-Lab, Robo-Lobster, Cloud Control and Space Junker, are designed to be fun to play- so [...]
Faced with mounting concerns over climate change and global warming, we look to the scientists for answers, to explain what exactly is going on and what can be done to remedy it. This is how we know what we know about climate change today: scientists, like good detectives, have to look into the past to [...]
It’s been a great year for the Talk Science team: we have travelled far and wide, worked with - and learned from- loads of brilliant teachers on our courses, and been busy-busy-busy developing new (and improved!) resources to bring extra zing to your science teaching! Our Punk Science films are now all available online. Bring their special brand of [...]
The Sno-Cat is a tracked vehicle that was originally used to maintain phone lines in North America in the 1940s. In 1958 however, it was used to carry equipment in the first motorised crossing of Antarctica, travelling 2000 miles over 2 years! It traversed terrains as different and perilous as soft deep snow and frozen choppy [...]
Do scientists have all the answers? Many people like to think so. After all isn’t science meant to be the rational, evidence-based approach to explaining the way the world works- and therefore, shouldn’t scientists be the rational, reassuring bearers of that ‘knowledge’? What about when their predictions turn out wrong, should scientists be held accountable? The [...]
Last month, the world celebrated 50 years since the first manned spaceflight, by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Yuri became the first man in space after completing a single orbit of Earth on the Soviet spacecraft Vostok, in April 1961 (at the Science Museum we actually have a fantastic drama event about Yuri’s incredible journey). Last month, a [...]
We were. And we had a fantastic time meeting students, educators and even Prof Brian Cox whilst working on the Science Museum stand at the fair! Oh, and gawking at the amazing flying penguins. The Big Bang Fair is a wonderful science festival for young people, promoting careers in science and showcasing young people’s STEM projects from across the [...]
Let’s talk about the importance of peer review. Particularly in light of the recent announcement by NASA scientist Richard B. Hoover in the Journal of Cosmology, that fossil evidence of bacterial life has been found in meteorites. That we are not alone out there, and that life on alien worlds may actually be more similar to life on [...]
The planet Mars is the closest we have in our solar system to being called hospitable (well, after our own beloved Earth)- it has surface gravity, an atmosphere, carbon dioxide, minerals and most importantly, water. But would you want to take a one-way trip over there? Some scientists, like Dirk Schulze-Makuch, speculate that to [...]
Air pollution levels in London are dangerously high and currently exceed EU recommended maximum levels. So what are we doing about it? Scientists have come up with a sticky solution. A layer of a special substance is being spread on roads which will literally stick polluting particles to the ground and stop them recirculation in [...]
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