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A species of dandelion is leading the way towards sustainable rubber. Find out how, by growing this unusual plant yourself and extracting the rubber from the roots.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Entertain your audiences with these tricky feats, which showcase Newton’s laws of motion in action.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
How Anne-Flore Laloë is chronicling the life and works of a scientific institution.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Get your students to use their smartphones for some hands-on astronomy.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Claire Pacheco explores ancient art puzzles with modern techniques.
Ages: 16-19;
For thousands of years, nature has produced brilliant visual effects. What is the physical principle behind it and how can we use it?
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Making pH-sensitive inks from fruits and vegetables is a creative variation of the cabbage-indicator experiment.
Ages: <11, 11-14;
The path to the Moon is paved with many challenges. What questions do the next generation of space explorers need to answer?
Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Online tools can be used to compare the sequences of proteins and understand how different organisms have evolved.
Ages: 16-19;
One hundred years after the start of the First World War, chemical weapons are still in the news. We consider some of the ethical questions behind the war’s chemical legacy.
Ages: 16-19;
| Issue 43
Turning dandelions into rubber: the road to a sustainable future
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Engineering
| Issue 39
Fantastic feats
Topics: Physics
| Issue 37
History in the making
Topics: Inspire, Profiles
| Issue 36
Smart measurements of the heavens
Topics: Physics, Earth science, Mathematics, Astronomy / space
| issue 35
Analysing art in the Louvre
Topics: Physics, Chemistry
| Issue 33
Structural colour: peacocks, Romans and Robert Hooke
Topics: Physics
| Issue 31
An artistic introduction to anthocyanin inks
Topics: Physics, Biology, Chemistry, General science
| Issue 31
The challenging logistics of lunar exploration
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space, Earth science, Science and society
| Issue 29
Using biological databases to teach evolution and biochemistry
Topics: Biology
| Issue 29
Experiments in integrity – Fritz Haber and the ethics of chemistry
Topics: Chemistry, Science and society
