Ashes and abs: testing calcium in gladiator tonic
Travel back to ancient Rome, test the calcium content of a gladiator recovery drink and compare it to today’s milk and sports drinks. History has never tasted this real!
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Travel back to ancient Rome, test the calcium content of a gladiator recovery drink and compare it to today’s milk and sports drinks. History has never tasted this real!
A species of dandelion is leading the way towards sustainable rubber. Find out how, by growing this unusual plant yourself and extracting the rubber from the roots.
Entertain your audiences with these tricky feats, which showcase Newton’s laws of motion in action.
How Anne-Flore Laloë is chronicling the life and works of a scientific institution.
Get your students to use their smartphones for some hands-on astronomy.
Claire Pacheco explores ancient art puzzles with modern techniques.
For thousands of years, nature has produced brilliant visual effects. What is the physical principle behind it and how can we use it?
Making pH-sensitive inks from fruits and vegetables is a creative variation of the cabbage-indicator experiment.
The path to the Moon is paved with many challenges. What questions do the next generation of space explorers need to answer?
Online tools can be used to compare the sequences of proteins and understand how different organisms have evolved.
Ashes and abs: testing calcium in gladiator tonic
Turning dandelions into rubber: the road to a sustainable future
Fantastic feats
History in the making
Smart measurements of the heavens
Analysing art in the Louvre
Structural colour: peacocks, Romans and Robert Hooke
An artistic introduction to anthocyanin inks
The challenging logistics of lunar exploration
Using biological databases to teach evolution and biochemistry