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Vered Yephlach-Wiskerman introduces a classroom project to investigate the bioremediation powers of the aquatic fern Azolla.
Ages: 16-19;
What types of plastic are used to build a car? How are they synthesised and recycled? Marlene Rau and Peter Nentwig introduce two activities from the ‘Chemie im Kontext’ project.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
How can we tackle climate change? Using activities and technologies that already exist – as Dudley Shallcross and Tim Harrison explain.
Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Evolutionary geneticist Svante Pääbo tells Eleanor Hayes how he excavates the genome to understand human evolution.
Ages: 16-19;
Matt Kaplan investigates the horrors that dwell within us – should we be changing our view of them?
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Claudia Mignone and Rebecca Barnes take us on a tour through the electromagnetic spectrum and introduce us to the European Space Agency’s fleet of science missions, which are opening our eyes to a mysterious and hidden Universe.
Ages: 14-16;
Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight European inter-governmental scientific research organisations. This article reviews some of the latest news from the EIROforum members.
Ages: not applicable;
Marlene Rau presents some fizzy and fun activities involving carbon dioxide, developed by Chemol and Science on the Shelves.
Ages: <11, 11-14;
Keen to save the world? Andy Newsam and Chris Leigh from the UK’s National Schools’ Observatory introduce an activity where you can potentially do just that: by detecting real asteroids – which may be heading for Earth.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Matthew Blakeley from ILL and his colleagues from ESRF and elsewhere have discovered how antifreeze in Arctic fish blood keeps them alive in sub-zero conditions. He and Eleanor Hayes explain.
Ages: 16-19;
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A clean green sweep: an aquatic bioremediation project
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
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Plastics in cars: polymerisation and recycling
Topics: Chemistry
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Is climate change all gloom and doom? Introducing stabilisation wedges
Topics: Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Earth science
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An archaeologist of the genome: Svante Pääbo
Topics: Biology
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Healthy horrors: the benefits of parasites
Topics: Biology, General science, Health
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More than meets the eye: the electromagnetic spectrum
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
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Google, guts and gravity
Topics: News from the EIROs, Physics, Biology, Astronomy / space, Health
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Fizzy fun: CO2 in primary school science
Topics: Chemistry, Earth science
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Hunting for asteroids
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
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Neutrons and antifreeze: research into Arctic fish
Topics: Physics, Biology, Chemistry
