Hunting for exoplanets
The possibility of worlds beyond our own has fascinated people for millennia. Now technology is bringing these other worlds – or exoplanets – within reach of discovery.
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The possibility of worlds beyond our own has fascinated people for millennia. Now technology is bringing these other worlds – or exoplanets – within reach of discovery.
Three key factors were required for life to develop on Earth – but which factor came first? Recent research could help settle the debate.
How can you make oil and water stay mixed? A scientist’s curiosity about a lemon liqueur has revealed how to do this – with some promising industrial applications.
New research is shedding light on the internal ‘clocks’ that help plants respond to changing day-night cycles.
New studies are uncovering how emissions from daily household activities pollute the air we breathe at home.
Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight of Europe’s largest intergovernmental scientific research organisations (EIROs). This article reviews some of the latest news from the EIROs.
Human activities continue to influence our climate on a global scale, but a number of other interlinked mechanisms also play a role.
An advanced technology that combines high-frequency sound waves with laser light is giving researchers and clinicians a new way of seeing living tissue.
Find out how women scientists contributed to knowledge of the chemical elements – and what this tells us about the nature of scientific work, then and now.
Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight of Europe’s largest intergovernmental scientific research organisations (EIROs). This article reviews some of the latest news from the EIROs.
Hunting for exoplanets
Finding the recipe for life on Earth
Limoncello and the science of emulsions
How plants beat jet lag
Take a deep breath? Investigating indoor air pollution
Magnetism in the Earth’s mantle, impressive asteroid observations, and insights into influenza
Ten things that affect our climate
Photoacoustics: seeing with sound
In their element: women of the periodic table
The history of our Universe, fusion research with comics, and clues about Alzheimer’s disease