How can we, as science-communicators, do a better job of communicating science? How can we better engage with young audiences, instilling an understanding that science is a way of thinking about mysteries, as well as all the WHIZZBANG experiments that you see on TV. Welcome to my world. I think about questions like this all the time. I'm not sure what the answers are, yet... With this in mind, I'm looking forward to partnering up with Cheltenham Science Festival for this year

Readers, you know me. You know I'm quite awful at self-promotion but this one requires it because I put a lot of work into something that I think could really help young people. I'm talking, of course, about my series of 360 videos... Great Ormond Street Hospital School is the latest to sign-up for 360SCIENCEtutor, an app that allows users access to free virtual field-trips to a host of UK sites, via a series of 360/VR videos. The videos cover 12 curriculum topics including f

Who says taxonomy is boring? Not me, that's for dang sure. Taxonomy is great. Like librarians, taxonomists do all sorts of things to help us better understand the branches and twigs of life's family tree to which we, like it or not, are attached. I have been delighted to have been working with the publisher Weldon Owen (part of the Bonnier group) on their upcoming book Creatures of the Order which will be sold internationally in October 2017. It's a way to encourage young rea