Lachlan Thompson

Learn about using science in your garden to save the planet. Due to climate change our world faces mass extinctions of our smallest animals – insects. So, who cares? Surely, we are better off without flies, mosquitoes, spiders and ugh! bugs. Not so – each tiny insect plays a vital role. Join our Space Science…

Join Professor Thompson on an interactive talk and exploration of taking bugs into space to help us live on the Moon and Mars. In 2003 Prof Thompson flew spiders and fruit flies on the NASA Space Shuttle in an experiment to see if bugs had the right stuff to help us live in space. On…