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Courtney Williams, winner of the CERN prize at the European Union Contest for Young Scientists 2009, reports on her experiences and those of the other EIROforum prize winners.
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Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration of research organisations. Eleanor Hayes, Editor-in-Chief of Science in School, reviews some of the latest news from the EIROforum members.
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EIROforum Click to enlarge image EIROforumw1 is a collaboration between seven European inter-governmental scientific research organisations. The organisations focus on very different types of research – from molecular biology to astronomy, from fusion energy to space science. They use very…
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What is matter? How did the Universe begin? Are there other planets like Earth? And how do we know? Eleanor Hayes reports on the first EIROforum teacher school.
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On 11-16 September 2009, the annual European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS) took place in Paris, France. Marlene Rau, a member of this year’s jury, reports.
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Every year, CERN invites a group of high-school teachers to Geneva, Switzerland, to learn about particle physics – and how to teach it at school.
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In the second of two articles, Rolf Landua from CERN takes us deep below the ground to visit the largest scientific endeavour on Earth – the Large Hadron Collider and its experiments.
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On 10 September 2008 at 10:28 am, the world’s largest particle accelerator – the Large Hadron Collider – was switched on. But why? In the first of two articles, Rolf Landua from CERN and Marlene Rau from EMBL investigate the big unresolved questions of particle physics and what the LHC can…
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Anne MJG Piret from the European Commission assisted the jury during the recent EU Contest for Young Scientists.
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It can be difficult and time consuming to develop materials for really good science lessons. Many scientific research organisations, however, provide teaching resources, often designed together with teachers. Researchers provide scientific expertise and the teachers bring years of experience in the…
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Young scientists at the cutting edge: EIROforum prize winners
Topics: Events
| Issue 18
Mars, snakes, robots and DNA
Topics: News from the EIROs, Physics, Biology, Astronomy / space
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EIROforum: introducing the publisher of Science in School
Topics: Physics, General science, Biology, Astronomy / space
| Issue 14
Teachers and scientists face to face: the first EIROforum teacher school
Topics: Events
| Issue 13
Discoveries in Paris: the European Union Contest for Young Scientists
Topics: Events
| Issue 13
Particle physics close up: CERN high-school teachers programme
Topics: Events
| Issue 10
The LHC: a look inside
Topics: Physics, Engineering
| Issue 10
The LHC: a step closer to the Big Bang
Topics: Physics
| Issue 8
Welcome to Valencia! The EU Contest for Young Scientists
Topics: Events
| Issue 7
Free online teaching materials
Topics: Resources
