Science on stage and in action
November 22, 2011 | Issue 21Andrew Brown reviews the latest Science on Stage event in Spain: Ciencia en Acción.
INSPIRE
A science teacher on air
November 22, 2011 | Issue 21Marco Martucci tells Eleanor Hayes what science teaching and radio journalism have in common.
Science teaching in space: the ESA teachers workshop
November 22, 2011 | Issue 21Meet an astronaut, cook a comet and plan a trip to Mars. Shamim Hartevelt introduces a recent teacher workshop at ESA.
Who Cloned my Cat? Fun Adventures in Biotechnology, by Reinhard Renneberg
November 22, 2011 | Issue 21Who Cloned my Cat? Fun Adventures in Biotechnology is a collection of two-page articles that briefly describe discoveries from the field of biotechnology.
The Astronaut’s Cookbook: Tales, Recipes, and More, by Charles T Bourland and Gregory L Vogt
November 22, 2011 | Issue 21The question that astronauts are most frequently asked is ‘How do you go to the toilet in space?’ This rather puts the cart before the horse because the next most popular questions concern the other end of the alimentary canal: ‘How do you eat in space?’, ‘What does the food taste like up…
UNDERSTAND
How I killed Pluto: Mike Brown
November 22, 2011 | Issue 21To change the world would be amazing enough. Mike Brown changed the Solar System. Eleanor Hayes explains.
Just the placebo effect?
November 22, 2011 | Issue 21When your doctor prescribes you a tablet and you get better, was it really the drug or could it have been the colour of the tablet? Andrew Brown investigates the placebo effect.
Birds on the run: what makes ostriches so fast?
November 22, 2011 | Issue 21What makes ostriches such fast runners? Nina Schaller has spent nearly a decade investigating.
More than meets the eye: unravelling the cosmos at the highest energies
November 22, 2011 | Issue 21Claudia Mignone and Rebecca Barnes explore X-rays and gamma rays and investigate the ingenious techniques used by the European Space Agency to observe the cosmos at these wavelengths.
Trapped by scientists: antimatter, cholesterol and red blood cells
November 22, 2011 | Issue 21Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight of Europe’s largest inter-governmental scientific research organisations. This article reviews some of the latest news from the EIROforum members (EIROs).
Cancer stem cells – hope for the future?
November 22, 2011 | Issue 21Cancer and stem cells are both topical issues. But have you heard of cancer stem cells? As Massimiliano Mazza explains, this concept may revolutionise the treatment of cancer.
TEACH
Polymers in medicine
November 22, 2011 | Issue 21The topic of polymers is often limited to chemistry lessons. The Establish project offers some hands-on activities to investigate these materials and some of their medical applications.
Smoke is in the air: how fireworks affect air quality
November 22, 2011 | Issue 21Did you realise that fireworks cause measurable air pollution? Tim Harrison and Dudley Shallcross from Bristol University, UK, explain how to investigate atmospheric pollutants in class.
The physics of crowds
November 22, 2011 | Issue 21Crowding affects us almost every day, from supermarket queues to traffic jams. Timothy Saunders from EMBL explains why this is interesting to scientists and how to study the phenomenon in class.
Smell like Julius Caesar: recreating ancient perfumes in the laboratory
November 22, 2011 | Issue 21Even everyday scents have the power to take us back in time, awakening half-forgotten memories. With Gianluca Farusi’s help, you can take your students 2000 years into the past, recreating and testing Julius Caesar’s perfume.
A clean green sweep: an aquatic bioremediation project
November 22, 2011 | Issue 21Vered Yephlach-Wiskerman introduces a classroom project to investigate the bioremediation powers of the aquatic fern Azolla.
EDITORIAL
Welcome to the twenty-first issue of Science in School
November 22, 2011 | Issue 21Thanks to everyone who donated to Science in School via our website; we were overwhelmed by the positive response. With your help and the support of our advertisers, we have been able to print and distribute Issue 21, as those of you who are reading this in print will realise. The battle…