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Results of the cover competition

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By Alina Postu (aged 18)

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.

Design the cover for Science in School!

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Do you or your students enjoy painting and drawing as well as teaching or learning science? Would you like to see your artwork reproduced 30,000 times and distributed across Europe? The Science in School cover competition gives you and your students the opportunity to do just that.

The neutron teaspoon

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

A cocktail of nucleic acids: celebrating the double helix

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Authors

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.

Putting the fizz into physics!

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Champagne

Lucy Attwood from Oxford Danfysik, UK, explains the mysterious appeal of champagne.

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