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Designing a school: taking science out of the classroom
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How can the architecture of a school influence its teaching? Allan Andersen, head teacher of Copenhagen’s Ørestad Gymnasium, tells Adam Gristwood and Eleanor Hayes. |
Harnessing the power of the Sun: fusion reactors
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Renewable, clean, unlimited energy – how can it be achieved? Christine Rüth from EFDA introduces the tokamak, the most advanced fusion device. |
Build your own microscope: following in Robert Hooke’s footsteps
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Nektarios Tsagliotis explains how to build an effective microscope using simple materials – enabling your students to discover a hidden world, just as Robert Hooke did in 1665. |
Revealing the secrets of permafrost
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Studying permafrost enables us to look not only into the past, but also into the future. Miguel Ángel de Pablo, Miguel Ramos, Gonçalo Vieira and Antonio Molina explain. |
Maggie Aderin-Pocock: a career in space
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As a child, Maggie Aderin-Pocock dreamed of going into space. She hasn’t quite managed it yet, but she’s got pretty close, as she tells Eleanor Hayes. |
Camp of brilliant brains
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Petra Nieckchen from EFDA reports on the 23rd European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS) in Helsinki, Finland. |
Diving into research at the EIROforum teacher school
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Does school feel a long way from modern science? Sonia Furtado Neves explains how 30 teachers recently experienced the thrill of cutting-edge research. |
Welcome to the twenty-second issue of SIS
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TV detectives often rely on genetic fingerprinting to track down criminals, but what is the science behind the technique? Find out in this issue of Science in School and learn how to do genetic fingerprinting at school. |
Sky-high science: building rockets at school
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Ever wanted to launch a rocket? Jan-Erik Rønningen, Frida Vestnes, Rohan Sheth and Maria Råken from the European Space Camp explain how. |
Black holes, magnetism and cancer
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Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight of Europe’s largest inter-governmental scientific research organisations. This article reviews some of the latest news from the EIROforum members (EIROs). |
