Just the placebo effect?
When your doctor prescribes you a tablet and you get better, was it really the drug or could it have been the colour of the tablet? Andrew Brown investigates the placebo effect.
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When your doctor prescribes you a tablet and you get better, was it really the drug or could it have been the colour of the tablet? Andrew Brown investigates the placebo effect.
What makes ostriches such fast runners? Nina Schaller has spent nearly a decade investigating.
Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight of Europe’s largest inter-governmental scientific research organisations. This article reviews some of the latest news from the EIROforum members (EIROs).
Cancer and stem cells are both topical issues. But have you heard of cancer stem cells? As Massimiliano Mazza explains, this concept may revolutionise the treatment of cancer.
Vered Yephlach-Wiskerman introduces a classroom project to investigate the bioremediation powers of the aquatic fern Azolla.
How can we tackle climate change? Using activities and technologies that already exist – as Dudley Shallcross and Tim Harrison explain.
Evolutionary geneticist Svante Pääbo tells Eleanor Hayes how he excavates the genome to understand human evolution.
Matt Kaplan investigates the horrors that dwell within us – should we be changing our view of them?
Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight European inter-governmental scientific research organisations. This article reviews some of the latest news from the EIROforum members.
Matthew Blakeley from ILL and his colleagues from ESRF and elsewhere have discovered how antifreeze in Arctic fish blood keeps them alive in sub-zero conditions. He and Eleanor Hayes explain.
Just the placebo effect?
Birds on the run: what makes ostriches so fast?
Trapped by scientists: antimatter, cholesterol and red blood cells
Cancer stem cells – hope for the future?
A clean green sweep: an aquatic bioremediation project
Is climate change all gloom and doom? Introducing stabilisation wedges
An archaeologist of the genome: Svante Pääbo
Healthy horrors: the benefits of parasites
Google, guts and gravity
Neutrons and antifreeze: research into Arctic fish