Take a deep breath? Investigating indoor air pollution
New studies are uncovering how emissions from daily household activities pollute the air we breathe at home.
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New studies are uncovering how emissions from daily household activities pollute the air we breathe at home.
Encourage students to stay safe in the sun with a collection of activities to discover the science behind sunscreen.
An advanced technology that combines high-frequency sound waves with laser light is giving researchers and clinicians a new way of seeing living tissue.
Create a living piece of ‘agar art’ to discover the invisible world of microbes living on our hands.
Over several decades, the search for new medicines has progressed from mimicking natural molecules to screening many millions of compounds.
USB-powered sequencers smaller than your smartphone could revolutionise the way we decode DNA – in hospitals, in remote locations and even in space.
Pathogens that threaten human health are constantly evolving to keep ahead of our defences. But we can now track these changes at the genetic level, even as they are happening.
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.
Insights into the brain’s unique protective barrier could offer promising treatments for diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s.
Take a deep breath? Investigating indoor air pollution
How effective is your sunscreen?
Photoacoustics: seeing with sound
Painting in a petri dish
The changing technologies of drug design
Decoding DNA with a pocket-sized sequencer
Evolution in action: pathogens
Natural experiments: taking the lab outdoors
Natural experiments: chemistry with mushrooms
Guardian of the brain: the blood-brain barrier