Field research: discovering the structure of soil
Get your hands dirty with these classroom experiments exploring the composition of soil – and find out why this matters.
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Get your hands dirty with these classroom experiments exploring the composition of soil – and find out why this matters.
By assembling a ‘backpack laboratory’, you can break away from the lab bench and take tests for starch and glucose into the wild outdoors.
How many ‘chemicals’ are there in a fresh mushroom? These simple experiments reveal the hidden chemistry within natural foods.
Can you stop the tray from tipping? Learn about the law of the lever to beat your opponent in this simple game.
Get a glimpse into the weird and wonderful life on Earth with the three winning entries in the Science in School writing competition.
Insights into the brain’s unique protective barrier could offer promising treatments for diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s.
Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight of Europe’s largest inter-governmental scientific research organisations (EIROs). This article reviews some of the latest news from the EIROs.
A unique experiment tracks microbes changing over thousands of generations – so we can watch evolution on fast-forward.
From samurai swords to healthy tomato plants, this little-known element has wider uses than you might expect.
Field research: discovering the structure of soil
Natural experiments: taking the lab outdoors
Natural experiments: chemistry with mushrooms
Balancing act: the physics of levers
Student competition: the search for the strangest species on Earth
Guardian of the brain: the blood-brain barrier
Crash-tolerant cars, toxic tattoo ink and the first X-ray laser light
Evolution in action: the 67 000-generation experiment
Elements in focus: molybdenum