Science at Life

13/10/2026

Lovely to see our after-hours event last week featured in the Chronicle!

Thank you to the Chronicle team for visiting and sharing their experience!

You can read the full article below 👇

The adults-only event at the Centre for Life lets grown-ups play with science again

12/10/2026

As the weather gets cooler, we’re starting to get excited for Christmas 🎄✨

Join us for our Santa Experience - a unique, magical experience for families!

09/10/2026

📢 We’re hiring!

We’re looking for an experienced and confident Head of Health and Safety to join the Life team.

If you have a strong background in health and safety, operational compliance or risk management, we’d love to hear from you!

Apply here 👉 https://www.life.org.uk/join-the-team/

09/10/2026

This World Space Week, we’ve been catching up with the professionals featured in our Space Zone exhibit to find out where their careers have taken them over the past seven years 🪐

For our final update, we're hearing from Ruusa-Magano David. Seven years ago, she was working in the Geography Department at Durham University, using satellite data to understand the effects of human activities on plants in the savanna regions of Namibia.

Ruusa is now a Lecturer in GIS and Remote Sensing at Keele University, where she combines satellite data with field observations to study forest ecosystems and how they’re changing in response to environmental change, wildfire and climate change 🌍

08/10/2026

This World Space Week, we’re revisiting the stories of the professionals featured in our Space Zone exhibit and seeing where their careers have taken them over the past seven years 🪐

Our next update comes from Ramin Lolachi. When we first featured Ramin, he was studying the atmosphere of Mars, carrying out research that could help support future crewed missions to the Red Planet.

Ramin is now an Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, where he works in planetary science.

His research now includes studying dust on airless bodies like the Moon and asteroids, as well as continuing his work on Mars. He has also been part of the investigation team for NASA’s DART mission, modelling the material ejected during the asteroid impact to help scientists understand how the impact transferred momentum 🌌

07/10/2026

To mark World Space Week, we’re catching up with the professionals who have shared their stories in our Space Zone exhibit, and seeing where their careers have taken them over the past seven years 🌍

Next up, Alexandra Taylor. When we first featured Alexandra, she was researching space law at Northumbria University, developing a framework for criminal justice in space.

Since completing her PhD in space law in July 2026, Alexandra is now an Associate Lecturer at Northumbria Law School and a research associate on a collaborative project between Northumbria University and Police AI.

Her research continues to explore illegality in outer space and responsible research ethics for long-duration spaceflight 🌌

06/10/2026

🌍 As part of our World Space Week series, we’re catching up with the professionals featured on our Space Zone career totems to see where their careers have taken them over the past seven years!

Next up, Anna Genina 🔭

When we first featured Anna, she was researching dark matter by investigating mysterious dwarf galaxies at Durham University’s Institute for Computational Cosmology.

Since completing her PhD in 2020, Anna is now based at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, where she compares telescope observations with computer simulations to study the faint outer regions of galaxies, known as stellar haloes 🌌

Her work is helping us understand how galaxies have evolved, while also exploring some of the biggest questions around dark matter and dark energy.

05/10/2026

Your festive plans, sorted ✨✅

Make your Christmas one to remember at our Santa Experience 🎅🏻

With a new elf show, a magical visit with Santa and full access to the science centre, it’s a unique day out that you won’t find elsewhere!🎄

Limited availability so be sure to book in advance 🎟️

05/10/2026

🌍 To celebrate World Space Week, we’re catching up with the professionals who have shared their stories in our Space Zone exhibit, and seeing where their careers have taken them over the past seven years!

Let’s start with Christopher Toth. When we first featured Christopher, he was working at Boulby Underground Laboratory, researching dark matter. He’s still there today, now as a Facility Scientist, working 1.1km underground in an active mine in North Yorkshire 🌌

Christopher now specialises in astroparticle physics experiments, and his work currently includes research and development for DarkSPHERE, a detector being developed to search for low-mass dark matter particles 🔬