Science on a shoestring: inspiring experiments with everyday items
Low cost, high impact: try these creative and engaging experiments that use inexpensive everyday materials to bring curriculum science to life.
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Low cost, high impact: try these creative and engaging experiments that use inexpensive everyday materials to bring curriculum science to life.
Lactase tablets for managing lactose intolerance can be used in the classroom to explore the biochemistry of sugars and the properties of enzymes.
Learn about a variety of biochemical aspects of honey through a series of simple experiments using the sugary product of bees.
Sweet understanding: learn about the science of honeybees and their sugary product through a series of hands-on activities.
Integrate key principles from biology, chemistry, and engineering with a set of experiments based on bioluminescence.
How have scientists been working to tackle COVID-19 during the pandemic? This interview from European XFEL gives some interesting insight.
Investigate how enzymes in your laundry detergent get rid of stains – and which are most important for keeping clothes clean.
Scalding volcanic springs are home to some remarkable microorganisms, and biotechnology is now finding uses for these microscopic survivors.
Activities you can use again and again, much like enzymes themselves.
Uracil is well known as one of the bases used in RNA, but why is it not used in DNA – or is it? Angéla Békési and Beáta G Vértessy investigate.
Science on a shoestring: inspiring experiments with everyday items
Explore enzymes and the science of lactose intolerance using lactase tablets
To bee or not to bee: the chemistry of honey
To bee or not to bee: the biology of bees and the biochemistry of honey
Bioluminescence: combining biology, chemistry, and bionics
Pulling together: a collaborative research approach to study COVID-19
Which laundry enzymes work best?
Some (microbes) like it hot
Energising enzyme activities
Uracil in DNA: error or signal?