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Bad science: how to learn from science in the media
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When you read the newspaper, how do you know what to believe? Ed Walsh guides you and your students through the minefield of science in the media. |
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. |
