How effective is your sunscreen?
Encourage students to stay safe in the sun with a collection of activities to discover the science behind sunscreen.
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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.
The same molecule that keeps mighty trees standing also led to the first multicellular life forms – and can even be used to make sweet treats.
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
Cellulose: from trees to treats