2009 marque le 150^ème anniversaire de la publication de Charles Darwin, “De l’Origine des Espèces”, un événement célébré mondialement. Emmanuel Reynaud revisite l’histoire du navire à bord duquel ont été posées les bases de ce travail.

En 2009 se conmemora el 150 aniversario de la publicación de El origen de las Especies, de Charles Darwin. Emmanuel Reynaud revive la historia del barco en cuyo interior se sentaron las bases de esta obra de Darwin.

2009. godine obeležava se sto pedeset godina od objavljivanja knjige “O poreklu vrsta” Čarlsa Darvina. Emanuel Rejno (Emmanuel Reynaud) podseća nas na priču o brodu na kome su udareni temelji Darvinove publikacije.

Η Lucy Attwood, από το Oxford Danfysik, στο Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο, εξηγεί τη μυστηριώδη γοητεία της σαμπάνιας.

In 2009, the world celebrates the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. Emmanuel Reynaud revisits the story of the vessel aboard which the foundations for Darwin’s publication were laid.

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.

In Issue 4, we challenged you and your students to design the cover for Science in School and were very impressed by the quality of the entries. Despite gloomy studies about decreasing interest in the sciences, there are clearly a lot of very enthusiastic and artistically gifted young scientists in Europe, supported by inspiring science teachers.

Jonathan Swinton pushes back the frontiers of knowledge – in his kitchen.

Dean Madden and John Schollar from the National Centre for Biotechnology Education at the University of Reading, UK, suggest a recipe for a cocktail containing deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA.) This drink has novel features of considerable biological interest.