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Soaring into space – a quick quiz Quiz

by Chenxin Tu, 8 March 2023 | 0 comments

This quiz has a spacey flavour! So will you soar towards the stars and get full marks, or are you about to come crashing back to Earth?

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Just bee yourself – a quick quiz Quiz

by Fiona Midson, 8 February 2023 | 0 comments

We’ve got the buzz about bugs, so let’s explore our six-legged pollinators. Will you take the sting out of this quiz and get 5/5 or just call pest control?

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Super jumping robot News

by David Shaw, 11 May 2022 | 3 comments

Jumping robot features two intercepting hoops with a small rocket on the top.

What on Earth can jump the highest? Olympic high jumpers can clear more than 2 metres. Pumas might be the best animals at jumping, able to leap 7 metres into a tree. But a team of researchers from the USA have just made a robot that jumps higher than any animal!

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Make a spinning helicopter Activity

by David Shaw, 28 April 2021 | 0 comments

Paper helicopter with paper clip weights.

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has made history by flying on Mars. To celebrate the first flight of a copter on another planet, here’s a simple unpowered helicopter you can build at home!

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Grab bag of science – a quick quiz Quiz

by David Shaw, 7 April 2021 | 0 comments

Black lightning bolt in purple circle

There’s no rhyme or reason to this quiz. It’s just some of the strangest and hardest science questions we could find. Can you beat the odds and get 5/5?

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Roving around – a quick quiz Activity

by David Shaw, 24 March 2021 | 0 comments

Black lightning bolt in purple circle

It’s not just robots that rove – this quiz celebrates roving in all its forms! Can you manage to find all the right answers?

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Rubble on the double: a spacecraft’s dash for asteroid dust News

by David Shaw, 5 November 2020 | 2 comments

Metalic box like space craft, standing in one leg on a dark flat surface.

For almost two years, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been orbiting an asteroid named 101955 Bennu. It’s done tons of science, scanning the rock from many angles. Right now, OSIRIS-REx is preparing to head back to Earth. But before leaving Bennu, the spacecraft reached out and touched the asteroid.

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International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies Activity

by David Shaw, 3 September 2020 | 0 comments

Girl takign a photo of the clouds at the beach

By Bill Flynn Whether you are at school, at home or self-isolating you can be a part of the United Nations International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies on Monday 7 September. How? By contributing to NASA’s citizen science global database! Download the GLOBE Observer app and photograph the cloud cover from your window,…

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Quakes on the Moon News

by David Shaw, 20 June 2019 | 0 comments

Earth is active down to its very rocks. Earthquakes and volcanoes shake our planet, and the continents themselves drift lazily across the surface. Compared to Earth, the Moon is a cold, hard rock. But even lunar rocks are more active than you might think.

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Astronauts didn’t make it to space this time News

by David Shaw, 18 October 2018 | 0 comments

A rocket flying up into the sky

Astronauts have nerves of steel. They ride controlled explosions, strapped to giant tanks of rocket fuel. And every now and then, things go wrong. Last Thursday, two space explorers didn’t quite make it to space – but they lived to tell the tale!

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