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Science: on stage and in action

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Andrew Brown reviews the latest Science on Stage event in Spain: Ciencia en Acción.

Polymers in medicine

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The topic of polymers is often limited to chemistry lessons. The Establish project offers some hands-on activities to investigate these materials and some of their medical applications.

How I killed Pluto: Mike Brown

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To change the world would be amazing enough. Mike Brown changed the Solar System. Eleanor Hayes explains.

Just the placebo effect?

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When your doctor prescribes you a tablet and you get better, was it really the drug or could it have been the colour of the tablet? Andrew Brown investigates the placebo effect.

Birds on the run: what makes ostriches so fast?

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What makes ostriches such fast runners? Nina Schaller has spent nearly a decade investigating.

A science teacher on air

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Marco Martucci tells Eleanor Hayes what science teaching and radio journalism have in common.

Smoke is in the air: how fireworks affect air quality

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Did you realise that fireworks cause measurable air pollution? Tim Harrison and Dudley Shallcross from Bristol University, UK, explain how to investigate atmospheric pollutants in class.

Science teaching in space: the ESA teachers workshop

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Meet an astronaut, cook a comet and plan a trip to Mars. Shamim Hartevelt introduces a recent teacher workshop at ESA.

More than meets the eye: unravelling the cosmos at the highest energies

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Claudia Mignone and Rebecca Barnes explore X-rays and gamma rays and investigate the ingenious techniques used by the European Space Agency to observe the cosmos at these wavelengths.

Trapped by scientists: antimatter, cholesterol and red blood cells

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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).

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