Survival science: learning through group interviews
Live by your wits: group interviews based on disaster scenarios provide a fun opportunity to develop scientific literacy and transferable skills.
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CSI Astronomy: learn how to spot fake astrophotography images
We’ve all been there: we see a stunning astrophotography image that has gone viral on social media, showing perhaps a huge full Moon aligned with some landmark or the Milky Way arching in the sky above some exotic location. But then we start second-guessing ourselves – something doesn’t look…
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Wall of stars: illuminate stellar life cycles with physics and coding
Written in the stars: use microcontrollers and LEDs to model stellar life cycles, scaling billions of years into minutes while exploring stellar evolution.
Biological oscillations: the rhythms of living things
Tick tock: Did you know that there are secret clocks ticking inside living organisms, including us? Let’s dive into the science of biological oscillators.
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