Structural colour: peacocks, Romans and Robert Hooke
For thousands of years, nature has produced brilliant visual effects. What is the physical principle behind it and how can we use it?
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For thousands of years, nature has produced brilliant visual effects. What is the physical principle behind it and how can we use it?
Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight of Europe’s largest intergovernmental scientific research organisations (EIROs). This article reviews some of the latest news from EIROs.
This issue marks a very special milestone for us: it’s ten years since the first issue of Science in School was published.
Brighten up your chemistry lessons by looking at bioluminescence.
Many naturally occurring compounds are useful in medicine – but they can be fabulously expensive to obtain from their natural sources. New scientific methods of synthesis and production are overcoming this problem.
Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight of Europe’s largest intergovernmental scientific research organisations (EIROs). This article reviews some of the latest news from the EIROs.
Cell’s movements are important in health and diseases, but their speed is the crucial point for the 2013 World Cell Race organised by Daniel Irimia.
Physicist Adrian Mancuso works at the cutting edge of 3D imaging, at what will be Europe’s newest and brightest X-ray facility.
Bring discovery into the classroom and show students how to evaluate Planck’s constant using simple equipment.
Structural colour: peacocks, Romans and Robert Hooke
Space, student visits and new science
Editorial issue 35
Living light: the chemistry of bioluminescence
Inspired by nature: modern drugs
Unpicking scientific mysteries across Europe
Making the right moves
High-powered research: physicist Adrian Mancuso
Classroom fundamentals: measuring the Planck constant