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Engaging with biomimetic design encourages students to explore the principles of form and function in relation to evolutionary adaptation.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16;
To keep refuelling its reactor, the EFDA-JET facility fires frozen hydrogen pellets into 150 million°C plasma. But these pellets have an added benefit as well.
Ages: 16-19;
Renewable, clean, unlimited energy – how can it be achieved? Christine Rüth from EFDA introduces the tokamak, the most advanced fusion device.
Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Have you ever wondered how best to make students aware of the issues surrounding our current fossil-fuel-intensive lifestyle? After all, they stand a good chance of seeing fossil fuels perhaps not run out but become unaffordable in their lifetime.
Ages: not applicable;
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.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Energy – why is it so important, where do we get it and how much do we use? Gieljan de Vries from the Dutch FOM-Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen investigates.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
With the help of enthusiastic school students and scientists, the Dutch school competition ‘Imagine’ supports the sustainable production of biodiesel in Mozambique, avocado oil in Kenya and the colorant byxine in Surinam. Daan Schuurbiers and Marije Blomjous, from the Foundation Imagine Life…
Ages: 16-19;
| Issue 53
Biomimicry: linking form and function to evolutionary and ecological principles
Topics: Biology, Engineering, Science and society, STEAM
| Issue 29
Super cold meets super hot
Topics: Physics, Engineering
| Issue 22
Harnessing the power of the Sun: fusion reactors
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Engineering
| Issue 20
Sustainable Energy – without the hot air, by David MacKay
Topics: Resources
| Issue 12
Looking to the heavens: climate change experiments
Topics: Physics, Earth science, Engineering
| Issue 11
Powering the world
Topics: Physics, Earth science
| Issue 6
Imagine… sharing ideas in the life sciences
Topics: Biology
