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Editorial Events Feature article: Jim Al-Khalili Cutting-edge science Teaching activities Projects in science education Science topics Teacher profile Scientist profile Back in the staffroom Reviews

Editorial

• Welcome to the eleventh issue of Science in School
  Is time travel science fact or science fiction? Find out more in this issue’s feature article by physicist Jim Al-Khalili...
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Events

• Forthcoming events
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• Science on Stage: recent international events
  Enthusiastic teachers, students and journalists took part in the Spanish and German Science on Stage events. Sonia Furtado reports.
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Feature article: Jim Al-Khalili

• Time travel: science fact or science fiction
  Do you believe that time travel has no place in a serious science lesson? Jim Al-Khalili disagrees.
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Cutting-edge science

• Sugary insights into worm parasite infections
  Schistosomiasis is the second most socioeconomically devastating parasitic disease after malaria. Alan Wilson and Stuart Haslam investigate new ways to combat the parasite.
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• Outmanoeuvering influenza's tricks
  Claire Ainsworth investigates how scientists are working to prevent another deadly flu pandemic.
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Teaching activities

• Growing crystals from protein
  Why not try growing protein crystals just like structural biologists do? Beat Blattmann and Patrick Sticher explain how.
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• Fuelling interest: climate change experiments
  Dudley Shallcross, Tim Harrison, Steve Henshaw and Linda Sellou offer experiments harnessing alternative energy sources.
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Projects in science education

• Catch them young: university meets primary school
  Samuel Lellouch and David Jasmin from La main à la pâte send university students to support primary-school teachers. Why not try two of their activities in your classroom?
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• Take the weather with you
  Karen Bultitude introduces a set of simple, fun and memorable demonstrations from the ZeroCarbonCity project using everyday ingredients to explain meteorological phenomena.
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Science topics

• Powering the world
  Energy – why is it so important, where do we get it and how much do we use? Gieljan de Vries investigates.
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• Systems biology in the classroom?
  Les Grivell explains what the all the buzz on systems biology is about and suggests a place for it in the science classroom.
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• Biological crystals: at the interface between physics, chemistry and biology
  Dominique Cornuéjols introduces us to the world of crystallography. It’s not all shiny diamonds…
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Teacher profile

• Serendipity in life (and) science: Christian Mellwig
  Christian Mellwig explains to Vienna Leigh how he never wanted to be a teacher - but now, teaching is what he does and he loves it.
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Scientist profile

• “Admitting to being a physicist isn’t really the best chat-up line”
  Alison McLure tells Marlene Rau about her adventurous life as a physicist – from being a TV presenter to an expedition to an island in the South Atlantic.
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Back in the staffroom

• How to write a good science story: writing competion
  Rebecca Skloot tells Sonia Furtado and Marlene Rau how she became a science writer, where she finds inspiration for her stories – and invites you to enter the Science in School science writing competition.
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Reviews

• A Dictionary of Science and
  Collins Internet-linked Dictionary of Science: Science Defined and Explained
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• Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names
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• A Dictionary of International Units: Metric-Matters: Names and Symbols
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• Potent Biology: Stem Cells, Cloning, and Regeneration
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