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Fred Engelbrecht and Thomas Wendt from the ExploHeidelberg Teaching Lab describe some experiments on sugar detection to demonstrate the problems that people with diabetes face every day.
Ages: 16-19;
The majority of young scientists working in research have only ever been that – scientists. But Vienna Leigh reports how one group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory started his career at the front of a classroom – and feels that his science benefits as a result.
Ages: not applicable;
Why not get your students to make their own predictions of climate change – with the help of Dudley Shallcross and Tim Harrison from Bristol University, UK?
Ages: 16-19;
Halina Stanley investigates the history of chewing gum, how the chemistry of the gum affects its properties, and how scientists are using this knowledge to make chewing gum less of a pollutant.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Steve Jones talks to Vienna Leigh about the startling re-emergence of creationism in Europe, how teachers can help, and why he will never argue with a creationist.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Teachers and many older school students will enjoy Dance of the Tiger, a very unusual fictional story written by a scientist about his own subject.
Ages: 16-19;
Bernardo Patti is the Columbus mission manager at the European Space Agency. He is an engineer and worked at nuclear power plants before going into space technology. Shortly before Columbus was launched, he talked to Anna-Lynn Wegener.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Ken Gadd and Luca Szalay introduce a procedure used in industry – and adapted for school students – to measure the citric acid level in chewing gum.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
The aim of Choosing Children is to investigate how humanity should regulate its fast-increasing ability to genetically design the babies of tomorrow.
Ages: 16-19;
In this, the second of two articles, climate researcher Rasmus Benestad from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute examines the evidence that humans are causing climate change.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
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Detecting sugar: an everyday problem when facing diabetes
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Health
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Cornelius Gross: from the classroom to the laboratory
Topics: Profiles
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Climate change modelling in the classroom
Topics: Physics, Earth science, Mathematics
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Materials science to the rescue: easily removable chewing gum
Topics: Physics, Chemistry
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Interview with Steve Jones: the threat of creationism
Topics: Biology
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Dance of the Tiger, By Björn Kurtén
Topics: Resources
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Laboratory in space: interview with Bernardo Patti
Topics: Physics, Biology, Astronomy / space
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Chewing flavours
Topics: Chemistry
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Choosing Children: Genes, Disability, and Design, By Jonathan Glover
Topics: Resources
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What do we know about climate? Investigating the effects of anthropogenic global warming
Topics: Earth science, Science and society
