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What types of plastic are used to build a car? How are they synthesised and recycled? Marlene Rau and Peter Nentwig introduce two activities from the ‘Chemie im Kontext’ project.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
How can we tackle climate change? Using activities and technologies that already exist – as Dudley Shallcross and Tim Harrison explain.
Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Campus Berlin-Buch is a science, health and biotechnology park in Berlin, Germany, with a focus on biomedicine.
Ages: not applicable;
TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a non-profit organisation that began as a conference to share “ideas worth spreading”. The first of its annual conferences was held in 1984 and since then, the programme has spread to include regional and local events across the world (see the…
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Have you ever wondered how best to make students aware of the issues surrounding our current fossil-fuel-intensive lifestyle? After all, they stand a good chance of seeing fossil fuels perhaps not run out but become unaffordable in their lifetime.
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Evolutionary geneticist Svante Pääbo tells Eleanor Hayes how he excavates the genome to understand human evolution.
Ages: 16-19;
Matt Kaplan investigates the horrors that dwell within us – should we be changing our view of them?
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
For someone interested in learning about obesity, Globesity: A planet out of control? is an excellent book to start with and, unless preparing for a doctorate thesis, possibly to finish with.
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Claudia Mignone and Rebecca Barnes take us on a tour through the electromagnetic spectrum and introduce us to the European Space Agency’s fleet of science missions, which are opening our eyes to a mysterious and hidden Universe.
Ages: 14-16;
Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight European inter-governmental scientific research organisations. This article reviews some of the latest news from the EIROforum members.
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Plastics in cars: polymerisation and recycling
Topics: Chemistry
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Is climate change all gloom and doom? Introducing stabilisation wedges
Topics: Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Earth science
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Translations – from today’s science to tomorrow’s medicine in Berlin-Buch, by Russ Hodge
Topics: Resources
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The Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) website
Topics: Resources
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Sustainable Energy – without the hot air, by David MacKay
Topics: Resources
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An archaeologist of the genome: Svante Pääbo
Topics: Biology
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Healthy horrors: the benefits of parasites
Topics: Biology, General science, Health
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Globesity: A planet out of control? By Francis Delpeuch, Bernard Maire, Emmanuel Monnier and Michelle Holdsworth
Topics: Resources
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More than meets the eye: the electromagnetic spectrum
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
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Google, guts and gravity
Topics: News from the EIROs, Physics, Biology, Astronomy / space, Health
