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The Ask a Biologist website is dedicated to answering questions on all aspects of biology. Although aimed primarily at school students of all ages, questions are accepted from anyone, whatever their age, including teachers.
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Exploring the Mystery of Matter: The ATLAS Experiment is an engaging and beautifully presented photo book that provides a captivating tour of the marvels of the large-scale particle detector experiments of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory.
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Did you know that the electron and electricity are named after amber, the ‘gold’ of the Baltic Sea? Bernhard Sturm’s teaching unit based on this fossilised resin introduces not only conductivity but also many other characteristics of solid organic compounds.
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This issue of Science in School is rather special: it’s now five years since Science in School was launched, in March 2006.
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Scientific research is not a career that most people believe to be suitable for the blind, but such beliefs are changing. Biologist Geerat Vermeij explains that, whether you are blind or not, science is competitive, tedious and hard – and he loves it.
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Uracil is well known as one of the bases used in RNA, but why is it not used in DNA – or is it? Angéla Békési and Beáta G Vértessy investigate.
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Science on Stage brings together many of Europe’s most innovative and inspiring science teachers. Andrew Brown reviews some of the recent national activities.
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Thanks to the determination of UK physics teacher David Richardson, increasing numbers of students in Rwandan schools are experiencing the delight of practical work. Vienna Leigh reports.
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Physics teacher Keith Gibbs shares some of his many demonstrations and experiments for the physics classroom.
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Relativity is, admittedly, a difficult subject to understand, even to science-oriented people. In Relativity: A Very Short Introduction, Russell Stannard has made an effort to explain relativity and its implications for the laws that govern the Universe in a way that can be understood by those with…
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Ask a Biologist website
Topics: Resources
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Exploring the Mystery of Matter: The ATLAS Experiment, By Kerry-Jane Lowery, Kenway Smith and Claudia Marcelloni
Topics: Resources
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Amber: an introduction to organic chemistry
Topics: Physics, Chemistry
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Happy birthday, Science in School!
Topics: Uncategorized
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To sea with a blind scientist
Topics: Profiles
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Uracil in DNA: error or signal?
Topics: Biology
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Science on Stage: countdown to the international festival
Topics: Events
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Teacher solidarity: a UK-Rwandan physics project
Topics: Profiles
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The resourceful physics teacher
Topics: Physics
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Relativity: A Very Short Introduction, By Russell Stannard
Topics: Resources
