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Issue 11
Mon, 2009-05-04 14:42 — rau
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- Welcome to the eleventh issue of Science in School
Is time travel science fact or science fiction? Find out more in this issue’s feature article by physicist Jim Al-Khalili...
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- Forthcoming events
Read (frequently updated) | PDF [564 KB] - Science on Stage: recent international events
Enthusiastic teachers, students and journalists took part in the Spanish and German Science on Stage events. Sonia Furtado reports.
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Feature article: Jim Al-Khalili
- Time travel: science fact or science fiction
Do you believe that time travel has no place in a serious science lesson? Jim Al-Khalili disagrees.
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- Sugary insights into worm parasite infections
Schistosomiasis is the second most socioeconomically devastating parasitic disease after malaria. Alan Wilson and Stuart Haslam investigate new ways to combat the parasite.
Read | PDF [664 KB] - Outmanoeuvering influenza's tricks
Claire Ainsworth investigates how scientists are working to prevent another deadly flu pandemic.
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- Growing crystals from protein
Why not try growing protein crystals just like structural biologists do? Beat Blattmann and Patrick Sticher explain how.
Read | PDF [996 KB] - Fuelling interest: climate change experiments
Dudley Shallcross, Tim Harrison, Steve Henshaw and Linda Sellou offer experiments harnessing alternative energy sources.
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- Catch them young: university meets primary school
Samuel Lellouch and David Jasmin from La main à la pâte send university students to support primary-school teachers. Why not try two of their activities in your classroom?
Read | PDF [1 MB] - Take the weather with you
Karen Bultitude introduces a set of simple, fun and memorable demonstrations from the ZeroCarbonCity project using everyday ingredients to explain meteorological phenomena.
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- Powering the world
Energy – why is it so important, where do we get it and how much do we use? Gieljan de Vries investigates.
Read (English, Bulgarian, Dutch, French, Greek) | PDF [720 KB] - Systems biology in the classroom?
Les Grivell explains what the all the buzz on systems biology is about and suggests a place for it in the science classroom.
Read | PDF [1.3 MB] - Biological crystals: at the interface between physics, chemistry and biology
Dominique Cornuéjols introduces us to the world of crystallography. It’s not all shiny diamonds…
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- Serendipity in life (and) science: Christian Mellwig
Christian Mellwig explains to Vienna Leigh how he never wanted to be a teacher - but now, teaching is what he does and he loves it.
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- “Admitting to being a physicist isn’t really the best chat-up line”
Alison McLure tells Marlene Rau about her adventurous life as a physicist – from being a TV presenter to an expedition to an island in the South Atlantic.
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- How to write a good science story: writing competion
Rebecca Skloot tells Sonia Furtado and Marlene Rau how she became a science writer, where she finds inspiration for her stories – and invites you to enter the Science in School science writing competition.
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- A Dictionary of Science and
Collins Internet-linked Dictionary of Science: Science Defined and Explained
Read | PDF [528 KB] - Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names
Read | PDF [508 KB] - A Dictionary of International Units: Metric-Matters: Names and Symbols
Read | PDF [520 KB] - Potent Biology: Stem Cells, Cloning, and Regeneration
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