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Eleanor Hayes, Holger Maul and Nele Freerksen investigate why folic acid is an essential component of your students’ diet – now and for a future healthy family.
Ages: 16-19;
Malcolm Fridlund from the European Space Agency (ESA) describes the search for extra-solar planets and explains how they can help us to understand the origin of life on Earth.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Giuseppe Zaccai from the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France, describes how he and his co-workers have uncovered a way to explore water dynamics in the cell interior using neutron scattering and isotope labelling.
Ages: 16-19;
Ana Lopes and Henri Boffin take us on a trip back in time – probing the history of the Universe.
Ages: 16-19;
How do astronauts eat, sleep and wash? Can you get ‘seasick’ in space? In the second of two articles about the ISS, Shamim Hartevelt-Velani, Carl Walker and Benny Elmann-Larsen from the European Space Agency investigate.
Ages: 16-19;
Leroy Hood talks to Marlene Rau, Anna-Lynn Wegener and Sonia Furtado about his long-standing commitment to innovative science teaching, and how he came to be known as the father of systems biology.
Ages: 16-19;
From jellyfish to arsenic detectors via a Nobel Prize: Sonia Furtado reports on the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, and interviews scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, about its applications.
Ages: 16-19;
Halina Stanley describes how two Israeli scientists investigated plasma balls and in the process found a potentially useful way to create nanoparticles.
Ages: 16-19;
Continuing our energy series, Menno van Dijk introduces us to the past, present and future of hydrocarbons – still the most common of all fuels.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Dominique Cornuéjols from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility introduces us to the world of crystallography. It’s not all shiny diamonds…
Ages: 16-19;
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Folic acid: why school students need to know about it
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
| Issue 13
The CoRoT satellite: the search for Earth-like planets
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy / space
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The intracellular environment: not so muddy waters
Topics: Physics, General science, Biology, Chemistry, Science and society
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The first light in the Universe
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
| Issue 10
The International Space Station: life in space
Topics: Astronomy / space
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New approaches to old systems: interview with Leroy Hood
Topics: Biology, General science, Science and society
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Painting life green: GFP
Topics: Biology, General science, Science and society
| Issue 12
Plasma balls: creating the 4th state of matter with microwaves
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Engineering
| Issue 12
Hydrocarbons: a fossil but not (yet) extinct
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Earth science, Engineering, Science and society
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Biological crystals: at the interface between physics, chemistry and biology
Topics: Physics, Biology, Chemistry
