Accelerate your teaching with links to cutting-edge science
April 4, 2024 | Issue 67Accelerate Your Teaching is a free online course for high-school teachers. Discover how particle accelerator stories can bring a range of STEM topics to life.
INSPIRE
Unfold Your World: using art to explore the story of life
April 4, 2024 | Issue 67Explore the form and function of ‘nature’s tiny sculptures’ – proteins – with an engaging art competition from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
UNDERSTAND
Investigating molecules: explosive imaging
April 4, 2024 | Issue 67Scientists use intense X-ray pulses from the European XFEL to take snapshots of exploding molecules. This can reveal details of how molecules are put together and how they interact with light.
Seagrass the wonder plant!
April 4, 2024 | Issue 67Did you know that there are flowering plants that live in the sea? The unique characteristics of seagrasses are vital for the health of our planet.
TEACH
Footprints in the agar: growing bacteria from ants’ feet to combat plant diseases
April 4, 2024 | Issue 67A walk on the wild side: invite some ants to take a walk on your petri dish and discover how bacteria from their feet could help us reduce pesticide use.
Beyond solids and liquids: the science of slime
April 4, 2024 | Issue 67Is it a solid? Is it a liquid? It’s slime! Make slime to explore viscoelasticity and then complete a material science design challenge.
Build a linear accelerator model
April 4, 2024 | Issue 67Build a linear accelerator to demonstrate spallation – the source of high-energy neutrons used by the new European Spallation Source being built in Sweden.
How much carbon is locked in that tree?
March 25, 2024 | Issue 67Biology, maths, and the SDGs: estimate the CO2 absorbed by a tree in the schoolyard and compare it to the CO2 emissions of a short-haul flight.