Postgraduate student is a Science Showoff

Posted on 22 September 2014 by Haley Gomez

Postgraduate student Matt Allen, participated in the somewhat terrifying Science Showoff competition earlier this week.  Science Showoff is an open-mic night for scientists to flex their funny bones and, well, pretty much show off. Matt talked about a hypothetical manned NASA mission in 2057 to the centre of a black hole. Going through the gory
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Universe in the Classroom: Impact Figures

Posted on 10 July 2014 by Sarah Roberts

The last Universe in the Classroom workshop for this academic year wrapped up last week in Cardiff. We’re well on target to reaching our goal to hand out 100 Universe-in-a-Box toolkits to 100 welsh primary schools by March 2015! Between January and July 2014, Universe in the Classroom hosted seven full-day teacher training sessions, reaching 73
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Pythagorean Astronomy: National Astronomy Meeting 2014

Posted on 30 June 2014 by Chris North

Between 23rd and 26th June 2014 over 600 astronomers gathered in Portsmouth for the annual National Astronomy Meeting. This meeting, organised by the Royal Astronomical Society, provides the opportunity for physicists, astronomers, space scientists and cosmologists to discuss the latest developments in their areas of research. It covers a huge range of topics, so cosmologists
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LittleBits and the Great Exoplanet Hack

Posted on 27 June 2014 by Edward Gomez

This blog is a cross posting from Dark Matter Sheep blog by Edward Gomez. This week I have been at the National Astronomy Meeting in Portsmouth. There have been many great talks and I particularly enjoyed organising the “Engaging the public and schools with astronomy” session with the famous Jen Gupta. Wednesday was Hack Day
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How to teach an entire school in one day

Posted on 18 June 2014 by Sarah Roberts

A STARS workshop yesterday managed to reach an entire primary school in Newport — in just one day! Two of our Physics undergraduates spent the day at Monnow School getting kids excited about science, and also training year 5 pupils to use Universe-in-a-Box to teach astronomy to the rest of the school! The teachers of
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