Parallax: reaching the stars with geometry
How far away are the stars? Explore in your classroom how astronomers measure distances in space.
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How far away are the stars? Explore in your classroom how astronomers measure distances in space.
Entertain your audiences with these tricky feats, which showcase Newton’s laws of motion in action.
Model organisms – yeast, worms, flies and mice – help researchers to probe the secrets of life.
Scientists are searching deep underground for hard-to-detect particles that stream across the Universe.
The role of our oceans in climate change is more complicated than you might think.
A new tool lets astronomers ‘listen’ to the Universe for the first time.
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.
Intrigue your students with some surprising experiments – it’s a great way to challenge their intuitions and explore the laws of mechanics.
Today’s announcement that the UK has approved the creation of babies from two women and one man offers an invaluable opportunity to discuss some of the real issues of science with your students.
Simulate a neuron in the classroom.
Parallax: reaching the stars with geometry
Fantastic feats
Life models
Science goes underground
Climate change: why the oceans matter
Turning on the cosmic microphone
Sea cucumbers, celebrations and student internships
When things don’t fall: the counter-intuitive physics of balanced forces
The ethics of genetics
The resting potential: introducing foundations of the nervous system