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April 28, 2008 | Issue 8

StandardBase: a Leonardo da Vinci pilot project for practical education and training in chemistry

The StandardBase project has produced 72 standard analytical procedures used in industry and adapted for use by students in schools and colleges via the Internet. Ken Gadd and Luca Szalay explain the goals and the use of StandardBase products.

Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Chemistry
         

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April 28, 2008 | Issue 8

Life on Mars: terraforming the Red Planet

Science fact or science fiction? Margarita Marinova from Caltech, USA, investigates the possibility of establishing life on Mars.

Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space, Earth science
                 

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April 28, 2008 | Issue 8

The Automated Transfer Vehicle – supporting Europe in space

Where do astronauts get their food? What happens to their waste? Adam Williams from the European Space Agency in Darmstadt, Germany, describes the development of an unmanned shuttle to supply the International Space Station.

Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
           

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December 9, 2007 | Issue 7

What happens next? A teaching strategy to get students of all ages talking

David Featonby, from the UK, presents some simple demonstrations to get your students thinking about scientific principles.

Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Physics, General science
       

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December 9, 2007 | Issue 7

Fighting an old enemy: tuberculosis

Tuberculosis isn’t something Europeans normally worry about. But the disease is re-emerging and is resistant to many of our drugs. Claire Ainsworth describes how Matthias Wilmanns and his team are trying to hold the disease back.

Ages: 16-19;
Topics: Biology, Health
         

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December 9, 2007 | Issue 7

Primary circuses of experiments

Catch them young! Alex Griffin, Tim Harrison and Dudley Shallcross from the University of Bristol, UK, show how important it is to interest young children in science – and how much fun it can be!

Ages: <11;
Topics: Chemistry
         

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December 9, 2007 | Issue 7

The great migration

Why are cells like wildebeest? Laura Spinney investigates the migration of cells and the formation of organs, using the tiny and transparent zebrafish.

Ages: 16-19;
Topics: Biology
           

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December 6, 2007 | Issue 7

Mercury: a poisonous solution

Sigrid Griet Eeckhout from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, investigates what determines the toxicity of mercury compounds – and how X-ray light is helping to solve the mystery.

Ages: 16-19;
Topics: Chemistry, Earth science
           

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December 6, 2007 | Issue 7

Interview with Lewis Wolpert

Professor Lewis Wolpert discusses his controversial ideas about belief, science education and much more with Vienna Leigh from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

Ages: 16-19;
Topics: Biology, General science, Profiles
           

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December 6, 2007 | Issue 7

Fusion in the Universe: gamma-ray bursts

Henri Boffin from ESOw1 in Garching, Germany, follows the mystery of gamma-ray bursts from their first discovery to the most recent research on these dramatic astronomical explosions.

Ages: 16-19;
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space