The first light in the Universe
Ana Lopes and Henri Boffin take us on a trip back in time – probing the history of the Universe.
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Ana Lopes and Henri Boffin take us on a trip back in time – probing the history of the Universe.
Do you enjoy the drama of science? The colour, the smells, the intricacies? Why not follow science teacher Bernhard Sturm’s suggestions: let your students bring yet more drama into the classroom by (re-)enacting science, to help them visualise and remember the lesson.
Luis Peralta, professor at the University of Lisbon’s physics department, and Carmen Oliveira, physics and chemistry teacher at Casquilhos High School in Barreiro near Lisbon, describe the ‘Environmental radiation’ project, in which students become actively and enthusiastically involved in…
Halina Stanley introduces a number of spectacular classroom experiments using microwaves.
Halina Stanley describes how two Israeli scientists investigated plasma balls and in the process found a potentially useful way to create nanoparticles.
Continuing our energy series, Menno van Dijk introduces us to the past, present and future of hydrocarbons – still the most common of all fuels.
In the second of two articles, Dudley Shallcross, Tim Harrison, Steve Henshaw and Linda Sellou offer chemistry and physics experiments to harness the Sun’s energy and measure carbon dioxide levels.
Lucy Patterson spoke to Greek science teacher Theodoros Pierratos, who recently won the chance to bring physics to life for his students in a truly extraordinary way with the help of the European Space Agency.
Ľudmila Onderová from PJ Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia, introduces us to the use of black boxes in the physics classroom.
Dominique Cornuéjols from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility introduces us to the world of crystallography. It’s not all shiny diamonds…
The first light in the Universe
The drama of science
Radioactivity in the classroom
Microwave experiments at school
Plasma balls: creating the 4th state of matter with microwaves
Hydrocarbons: a fossil but not (yet) extinct
Looking to the heavens: climate change experiments
A classroom in space
Physics: a black box?
Biological crystals: at the interface between physics, chemistry and biology