Dear Science in School subscribers,

I am pleased to inform you that the eleventh issue of Science in School is now available to read and download at www.scienceinschool.org. Those of you who have subscribed to a print copy will have received it. We hope you enjoy this issue – see the contents list below.

You will notice that we have relaunched our website: explore its new dynamic features and do give us your feedback. We hope you'll like it.

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In this issue, you'll find a science-writing competition for students. The deadline is 30 September, and entries are welcomed from students at secondary schools anywhere in Europe. They will be judged in two categories, according to the author's age on the date of submission: 11-15 year-olds, and 16 and over. Find out more online.

The number of translated articles on our website is increasing steadily. Italian, German, Greek and Spanish are particularly well represented at the moment, but we have articles in over 25 languages. If you would like more articles online in your native language, you might like to either translate some yourself, or encourage others to help. Translation guidelines are available online.

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Contents

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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