Warrior against pseudoscience: Daniella Muallem
August 23, 2011 | Issue 20Daniella Muallem tells Eleanor Hayes about challenging misleading ‘scientific’ claims.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
INSPIRE
Translations – from today’s science to tomorrow’s medicine in Berlin-Buch, by Russ Hodge
August 23, 2011 | Issue 20Campus Berlin-Buch is a science, health and biotechnology park in Berlin, Germany, with a focus on biomedicine.
Ages: not applicable; Keywords: Medical research, Medicine
The Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) website
August 23, 2011 | Issue 20TED (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; Keywords: Technology, Design and technology, Science communication
Sustainable Energy – without the hot air, by David MacKay
August 23, 2011 | Issue 20Have 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.
Ages: not applicable; Keywords: Sustainability, Energy, Alternative energy
Globesity: A planet out of control? By Francis Delpeuch, Bernard Maire, Emmanuel Monnier and Michelle Holdsworth
August 23, 2011 | Issue 20For 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.
Ages: not applicable; Keywords: Health and diet, Health
The Rough Guide to the Brain, by Barry J Gibb
August 23, 2011 | Issue 20The Rough Guide to the Brain is a thoroughly readable, interesting and informative book.
Ages: not applicable; Keywords: Brain, Neurobiology, Neurology
UNDERSTAND
Is climate change all gloom and doom? Introducing stabilisation wedges
August 23, 2011 | Issue 20How 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; Keywords: Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Earth science, Environmental education, Social studies
An archaeologist of the genome: Svante Pääbo
August 23, 2011 | Issue 20Evolutionary geneticist Svante Pääbo tells Eleanor Hayes how he excavates the genome to understand human evolution.
Ages: 16-19; Keywords: Biology, Evolution, History, Ethics, Genetics
Healthy horrors: the benefits of parasites
August 23, 2011 | Issue 20Matt Kaplan investigates the horrors that dwell within us – should we be changing our view of them?
Ages: 14-16, 16-19; Keywords: Parasitology, Biology
More than meets the eye: the electromagnetic spectrum
August 23, 2011 | Issue 20Claudia 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; Keywords: Biology, Physics, Waves, Satellites, Telescopes, Vision
Google, guts and gravity
August 23, 2011 | Issue 20Science 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.
Ages: not applicable;
Neutrons and antifreeze: research into Arctic fish
August 23, 2011 | Issue 20Matthew Blakeley from ILL and his colleagues from ESRF and elsewhere have discovered how antifreeze in Arctic fish blood keeps them alive in sub-zero conditions. He and Eleanor Hayes explain.
Ages: 16-19; Keywords: Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Interdisciplinary, Adaptations to the environment, Crystal structure, Protein structure, X-rays
TEACH
Plastics in cars: polymerisation and recycling
August 23, 2011 | Issue 20What 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; Keywords: Biology, Chemistry, Organic chemistry, Plastics
Fizzy fun: CO2 in primary school science
August 23, 2011 | Issue 20Marlene Rau presents some fizzy and fun activities involving carbon dioxide, developed by Chemol and Science on the Shelves.
Ages: < 11, 11-14; Keywords: Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Ecology, Earth science, Environmental studies, Biology
Hunting for asteroids
August 23, 2011 | Issue 20Keen to save the world? Andy Newsam and Chris Leigh from the UK’s National Schools’ Observatory introduce an activity where you can potentially do just that: by detecting real asteroids – which may be heading for Earth.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19; Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Earth science, IT, Objects in space
Going wild: teaching physics on a roller coaster
August 23, 2011 | Issue 20Roller coasters, carousels and other amusement park rides can be great fun – and can even be used as a science lesson, as Giovanni Pezzi explains.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19; Keywords: Linear and circular motion, Mechanics, Energy conversions, Physics
EDITORIAL
Welcome to the twentieth issue of Science in School
August 23, 2011 | Issue 20I am delighted to announce that our publisher, EIROforum, has agreed to fund Science in School for a further two years, with enough money to cover the online production.
Ages: not applicable;