Articles

Issue 20

Warrior against pseudoscience: Daniella Muallem

Daniella Muallem tells Eleanor Hayes about challenging misleading ‘scientific’ claims.

Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Profiles
           

Plastics in cars: polymerisation and recycling

What types of plastic are used to build a car? How are they synthesised and recycled? Marlene Rau and Peter Nentwig introduce two activities from the ‘Chemie im Kontext’ project.

Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Chemistry
             

Is climate change all gloom and doom? Introducing stabilisation wedges

How can we tackle climate change? Using activities and technologies that already exist – as Dudley Shallcross and Tim Harrison explain.

Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Earth science
         

Translations – from today’s science to tomorrow’s medicine in Berlin-Buch, by Russ Hodge

Campus Berlin-Buch is a science, health and biotechnology park in Berlin, Germany, with a focus on biomedicine.

Ages: not applicable;
Topics: Resources

The Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) website

TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a non-profit organisation that began as a conference to share “ideas worth spreading”. The first of its annual conferences was held in 1984 and since then, the programme has spread to include regional and local events across the world (see the…

Ages: not applicable;
Topics: Resources
         

Sustainable Energy – without the hot air, by David MacKay

Have you ever wondered how best to make students aware of the issues surrounding our current fossil-fuel-intensive lifestyle? After all, they stand a good chance of seeing fossil fuels perhaps not run out but become unaffordable in their lifetime.

Ages: not applicable;
Topics: Resources
     

An archaeologist of the genome: Svante Pääbo

Evolutionary geneticist Svante Pääbo tells Eleanor Hayes how he excavates the genome to understand human evolution.

Ages: 16-19;
Topics: Biology
                   

Healthy horrors: the benefits of parasites

Matt Kaplan investigates the horrors that dwell within us – should we be changing our view of them?

Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Biology, General science, Health
                 

Globesity: A planet out of control? By Francis Delpeuch, Bernard Maire, Emmanuel Monnier and Michelle Holdsworth

For someone interested in learning about obesity, Globesity: A planet out of control? is an excellent book to start with and, unless preparing for a doctorate thesis, possibly to finish with.

Ages: not applicable;
Topics: Resources