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Teaching viscosity can be sweetened by using chocolate.
The new academic year is a time for new beginnings: new challenges, opportunities, students, colleagues and, most importantly, new ideas. Possibilities stretch out before us, each one beckoning us to a different outcome.
Taking inspiration from nature’s amazing ability to heal wounds, this biology-inspired technology could create aircraft wings that fix themselves.
Our genetic information is encoded in our DNA, but that is only part of the story.
We know that robots are good for mechanical tasks – but here’s a chemistry project for robots that don’t mind getting their sensors wet.
What happens inside magnets? This fun activity for primary school pupils helps them find out – by turning themselves into a magnet.
What would it be like if numbers and musical tones had colours? People with synaesthesia experience the world in this way – and scientists are trying to find out why.
Intrigue your students with some surprising experiments – it’s a great way to challenge their intuitions and explore the laws of mechanics.
A new tool lets astronomers ‘listen’ to the Universe for the first time.
Melts in your viscometer, not in your hand
Editorial issue 37
Self-healing aircraft wings: a dream or a possibility?
Unravelling epigenetics
Chembot: chemistry with robots
Be a magnet for a day
Blended senses: understanding synaesthesia
When things don’t fall: the counter-intuitive physics of balanced forces
Turning on the cosmic microphone