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Exponential growth has become part of daily life during the COVID-19 pandemic. These simple exercises help explain this tricky concept
Ages: 11-14;
The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a spotlight on exponential growth. This provides an opportunity to teach this tricky concept in a real-world context.
Ages: 14-16;
Hit me with your best shot: Vaccines have taken centre stage in the COVID-19 pandemic. What are the different types and how do they work?
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
A negative result from a medical test means you definitely don’t have the condition, right? Wrong: it depends on the false negative rate of the test and on your individual risk.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Recreate the epic fight between pathogens and the immune system in your classroom.
Ages: 11-14;
Viruses help carbon sink deep down in the oceans.
Ages: 14-16;
Catching the influenza virus can be more than just a nuisance: these pathogens have caused the most deadly pandemic in recent history. Claire Ainsworth investigates how scientists are working to prevent it happening again.
Ages: 16-19;
Schistosomiasis is the second most socioeconomically devastating parasitic disease after malaria. Alan Wilson and Stuart Haslam investigate new ways to combat the parasite – taking advantage of its sugar coating.
Ages: 16-19;
Winfried Weissenhorn’s group at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Grenoble, France, has uncovered a possible way to tackle a range of dangerous viruses –by trapping them inside their cocoons. Claire Ainsworth investigates.
Ages: 16-19;
Tuberculosis isn’t something Europeans normally worry about. But the disease is re-emerging and is resistant to many of our drugs. Claire Ainsworth describes how Matthias Wilmanns and his team are trying to hold the disease back.
Ages: 16-19;
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Exponential growth 1: learn the basics from confetti to understand pandemics
Topics: Health, Science and society, Mathematics
| Issue 53
Exponential growth 2: real-life lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
Topics: Health, Science and society, Mathematics
| Issue 53
Vaccines in the spotlight
Topics: Biology, Health, Science and society
| Issue 52
How to understand a COVID-19 test result
Topics: Biology, Health, Science and society
| Issue 36
Ready, set, infect!
Topics: Biology, Health, Teach
| Issue 34
Infecting climate change
Topics: Biology, Earth science
| Issue 11
Outmanoeuvering influenza’s tricks
Topics: Biology
| Issue 11
Sugary insights into worm parasite infections
Topics: Biology, Health
| Issue 8
Locking the cradle
Topics: Biology, Health
| Issue 7
Fighting an old enemy: tuberculosis
Topics: Biology, Health
