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Crowding affects us almost every day, from supermarket queues to traffic jams. Timothy Saunders from EMBL explains why this is interesting to scientists and how to study the phenomenon in class.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Who Cloned my Cat? Fun Adventures in Biotechnology is a collection of two-page articles that briefly describe discoveries from the field of biotechnology.
Ages: not applicable;
Even everyday scents have the power to take us back in time, awakening half-forgotten memories. With Gianluca Farusi’s help, you can take your students 2000 years into the past, recreating and testing Julius Caesar’s perfume.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Vered Yephlach-Wiskerman introduces a classroom project to investigate the bioremediation powers of the aquatic fern Azolla.
Ages: 16-19;
The question that astronauts are most frequently asked is ‘How do you go to the toilet in space?’ This rather puts the cart before the horse because the next most popular questions concern the other end of the alimentary canal: ‘How do you eat in space?’, ‘What does the food taste like up…
Ages: not applicable;
Daniella Muallem tells Eleanor Hayes about challenging misleading ‘scientific’ claims.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
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…
Ages: not applicable;
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The physics of crowds
Topics: Physics
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Who Cloned my Cat? Fun Adventures in Biotechnology, by Reinhard Renneberg
Topics: Resources
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Smell like Julius Caesar: recreating ancient perfumes in the laboratory
Topics: Chemistry
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A clean green sweep: an aquatic bioremediation project
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
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The Astronaut’s Cookbook: Tales, Recipes, and More, by Charles T Bourland and Gregory L Vogt
Topics: Resources
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Warrior against pseudoscience: Daniella Muallem
Topics: Profiles
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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
