Welcome to the twenty-third issue of Science in School
What makes diamonds strong or a tiger stripy? Why is music uplifting or the Alhambra palace beautiful? The answer: mathematics.
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What makes diamonds strong or a tiger stripy? Why is music uplifting or the Alhambra palace beautiful? The answer: mathematics.
The Wonder of Genetics is a user-friendly guide through the wonderful – and, to some, scary – world of genetics.
Astronomers use giant radio telescopes to observe black holes and distant galaxies. Why not build your own small-scale radio telescope and observe objects closer to home?
For two science teachers from opposite ends of Europe – David Featonby and Zuzana Ješková – Science on Stage was the beginning of an inspiring and enjoyable collaboration.
With oil reserves running out, silicon solar cells offer an alternative source of energy. How do they work and how can we exploit their full potential?
Physics Education Technology (PhET to its friends) is the slick but not very meaningful title of a site that offers a wide range of excellent interactive physics simulations for secondary-school and university students.
Physicist Adrian Mancuso works at the cutting edge of 3D imaging, at what will be Europe’s newest and brightest X-ray facility.
Male or female? What are the issues surrounding children for whom the answer is not clear? Researchers Eric Vilain and Melissa Hines hope to provide some of the answers.
Holding this book in my hands as I boarded what would be an eight-hour flight, I planned to read the modest 204 pages whilst airborne. When we landed, I had managed just 70, thanks to all the observation, thinking and note-taking that Inflight Science: A guide to the world from your airplane window…
We all know that exercise makes us fitter and healthier – but what changes take place in our cells to make this happen?
Welcome to the twenty-third issue of Science in School
The Wonder of Genetics: The Creepy, the Curious, and the Commonplace, by Richard V. Kowles
Build your own radio telescope
Science on Stage: a Slovak-British relationship
Solar energy: silicon solar cells
The PhET website
High-powered research: physicist Adrian Mancuso
Intersex: falling outside the norm
Inflight Science: A guide to the world from your airplane window, by Brian Clegg
On your bike: how muscles respond to exercise