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Editorial News from the EIROs Events Feature article: cracking down on wildlife trafficking Cutting-edge science Teaching activities Advertorial Science education projects Science topics Teacher profile Reviews

Editorial

• Welcome to the twenty-fourth issue of Science in School
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News from the EIROs

• Bigger, faster, hotter
  EIROforum, the publisher of Science in School, reports on the latest news from its eight European inter-governmental research organisations.
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Events

• Learning through investigation: Science on Stage visit to El Roure Gros primary school
  Teachers from Science on Stage visited a unique primary school in Spain.
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• Forthcoming events

Feature article

• Cracking down on wildlife trafficking
  Biologist Juliana Machado Ferreira is using science to combat wildlife traffickers in Brazil.
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Cutting-edge science

• Seeing the light: monitoring fusion experiments
  Finding out what is going on in the core of a fusion experiment at 100 million degrees Celsius is no easy matter, but there are clever ways to work it out.
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• Behind the autistic spectrum
  Research into the genetics of the autism spectrum is increasing our understanding of these conditions.
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Teaching activities

• The effect of heat: simple experiments with solids, liquids and gases
  From a homemade thermometer to knitting needles that grow: simple but fun experiments for primary-school pupils.
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• Seeing is believing: 3D illusions
  How does our brain create the illusion of depth from a two-dimensional image? Explore the phsysics of this phenomenen with a set of activities.
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Advertorial

• In a class of their own: lessons in energy and education from European schools
  How far would you be willing to go to raise awareness amongst staff and students at your school of the need for sustainable energy?
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Science education projects

• Indigo: recreating Pharaoh's dye
  What links your jeans, sea snails, woad plants and the Egyptian royal family? It’s the dye, indigo. Learn how you can extract it at school.
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• Analysing wine at school
  European countries produce more than half of the world’s wine. These hands-on activities for schools reveal the science behind the perfect wine.
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Science topics

• More than meets the eye: the exotic, high-energy Universe
  In the third article on astronomy and the electromagnetic spectrum, learn about the European Space Agency’s X-ray and gamma-ray observatories.
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• The new definition of crystals - or how to win a Nobel Prize
  Why is symmetry so central to the understanding of crystals? And why did ‘forbidden’ symmetry change the definition of crystals themselves?
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Teacher profile

• Making physics flourish in Poland: Maria Dobkowska
  A Polish physics teacher describes the challenges of remaining creative within a strictly defined national curriculum and of working with children with disabilities.
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Reviews

• The Eduspace website
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• The Periodic Table of Videos website
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