Research by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) has helped halve death rates from heart and circulatory disease in Wales over the past 50 years. Our scientific research has helped to revolutionise treatments which means that around 70% of people now survive a heart attack. Our research has also pioneered the surgical techniques that ensure most babies now survive congenital heart disease. Before the BHF, 4 in 5 children born with congenital heart disease died before their first birthday. Today thanks…

An innovative Welsh business is proving that science is fun, not scary, with a series of weird and wonderful experiments as British Science Week gets underway. Caerphilly-based Letterbox Lab is setting out to challenge the way children view their environment and encourage them to carry out their own mini investigations with their clever all-in-one science boxes. And this year’s British Science Week theme of ‘Change’ is particularly fitting, as Letterbox Lab was founded last year by married couple Mia and…