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Seagrass the wonder plant!

We live on a blue planet, over 70% of the planet’s surface is covered by water. The ocean provides humankind with oxygen, food, and medicines. It regulates the climate, is a key mode of transportation, is home to an incredible diversity of plant and animal species, and is a place where we can…

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Create a particle accelerator using a Van de Graaff generator, a ping-pong ball and a salad bowl to understand how it is used to study matter at the…

       

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Fay Christodoulou, a Greek PhD student at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), is an example that shows not every researcher is born…


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