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

Editorial

• Welcome to the twelfth issue of Science in School
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Events

• Forthcoming events
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• Science on Stage: recent activities
  Sonia Furtado and Marlene Rau report on the news from the national Science on Stage representatives.
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Feature article: Leroy Hood

• New approaches to old systems: interview with Leroy Hood
  Leroy Hood, the father of systems biology, talks about his long-standing commitment to innovative science teaching and more.
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Cutting-edge science

• Painting life green: GFP
  From jellyfish to arsenic detectors via a Nobel Prize: Sonia Furtado reports on the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein.
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• Plasma balls: creating the 4th state of matter with microwaves
  Halina Stanley describes how two Israeli scientists investigated plasma balls and in the process found a potentially useful way to create nanoparticles.
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Teaching activities

• Microwave experiments at school
  Halina Stanley introduces a number of spectacular experiments using microwaves.
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• Looking to the heavens: climate change experiments
  Dudley Shallcross, Tim Harrison, Steve Henshaw and Linda Sellou offer experiments harnessing the Sun's energy and measure carbon dioxide levels.
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• Physics: a black box?
  Ľudmila Onderová from PJ Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia, introduces us to the use of black boxes in the physics classroom.
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• Fishing for genes: DNA microarrays in the classroom
  Anastasios Koutsos, Alexandra Manaia, and Julia Willingale-Theune bring a sophisticated molecular biology technique into the classroom.
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Projects in science education

• A classroom in space
  Lucy Patterson spoke to Greek science teacher Theodoros Pierratos, winner of ESA's competition to take a classroom experiment into space.
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• Radioactivity in the classroom
  The Portuguese 'Environmental radiation' project gets students actively and enthusiastically involved in science. Luis Peralta and Carmen Oliveira report.
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Science topics

• Hydrocarbons: a fossil but not (yet) extinct
  Continuing our energy series, Menno van Dijk introduces us to the past, present and future of hydrocarbons - still the most common of all fuels.
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Scientist profile

• The science of preserving art
  Head Conservator Katy Lithgow from the National Trust explains how arts and science can be inextricably linked.
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Teacher profile

• Teaching on the move
  Jeanne Keweloh tells Sonia Furtado about the ups and downs of life as a substitute teacher, sharing her passion for science wherever she's needed.
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Back in the staffroom

• The Beagle
  Emmanuel Reynaud revisits the story of the vessel aboard which the foundations for Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species were laid.
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Reviews

• Whynotchemeng.com website
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• Gene ABC website
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