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Editorial Events Feature article: Henrik Ehrsson Cutting-edge science Teaching activities Project in science education Science topics Science and society Teacher profile Scientist profile Reviews Back in the staffroom

Editorial

• Welcome to the fifteenth issue of Science in School
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Events

• Forthcoming events
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• Science on Stage: gathering momentum
  Many of the national Science on Stage organisations are already beginning to select which teachers from their countries will attend the European teaching festival in 2011.
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Feature article: Henrik Ehsrsson

• Exploring out-of-body experiences: interview with Henrik Ehrsson
  Have you ever felt that you were looking at yourself from outside your own body? Marta Paterlini talked to Henrik Ehrsson, a scientist studying out-of-body experiences.
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Cutting-edge science

• EIROforum: introducing the publisher of Science in School
  Get to know the seven research organisations behind Science in School.
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• Watching it grow: developing a digital embryo
  What if you could witness the development of a new life, cell by cell, moment by moment? Sonia Furtado investigates the digital zebrafish embryo.
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• Programmable metallisation cells: the race for miniaturisation
  Gabriel Cuello introduces a new type of digital memory that may revolutionise our USB sticks.
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Teaching activities

• Using news in the science classroom
  Fernanda Veneu-Lumb and Marco Costa show how news reports – even inaccurate ones – can be used in the science classroom.
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• GIS: analysing the world in 3D
  Joseph Kerski shows how earthquakes, global climate or the placement of wind farms can all be investigated dynamically in the classroom.
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Project in science education

• Getting down to Earth: ideas for the earth science classroom
  Chris King, Elizabeth Devon and Peter Kennett introduce a rich collection of activities to spice up your earth science lessons.
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Science topics

• The ALMA Observatory: the sky is only one step away
  Claudia Mignone and Douglas Pierce-Price take us on a trip to the Chilean Andes, to the world’s largest radio astronomy facility to discover the secrets of our cosmic origins.
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• Deadly proteins: prions
  Mico Tatalovic reviews current research into prions, the causative agents of ‘mad cow disease’ and its human equivalent, variant Creutzfeld-Jacob disease.
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• Combating earthquakes: designing and testing anti-seismic buildings
  Francesco Marazzi and Daniel Tirelli explain how earthquake-proof buildings are designed and tested.
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Science and society

• Homo sapiens – an endangered species?
  Will discussions during the International Year of Biodiversity enable us to save not only whales and tigers, but also our own species? Marlene Rau investigates.
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Teacher profile

• A chemical bond: Nick Barker, linking schools and universities in the UK
  Lucy Patterson spoke to Nick Barker, a former secondary-school chemistry teacher, now a Royal Society of Chemistry Teacher Fellow.
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Scientist profile

• Sowing the seeds of science: Helke Hillebrand
  Helke Hillebrand tells Vienna Leigh about her move from plant biology to nurturing young scientists.
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Reviews

• Nanoscale: Visualizing an Invisible World
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• Why the Lion Grew its Mane: a Miscellany of Recent Scientific Discoveries from Astronomy to Zoology
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• The Periodic Table: its Story and Significance
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Back in the staffroom

• The winners of the Science in School writing competition
  Eleanor Hayes introduces the winners of the Science in School writing competition.
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