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In celebration of the International Year of Biodiversity 2010, Matt Kaplan takes us on a whirlwind tour through the previous year’s most inspiring discoveries of biodiversity.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Lucy Patterson talks to Èlia Benito Gutierrez, from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, about how Èlia’s favourite animal, amphioxus, could be the key to understanding the evolution of vertebrates.
Ages: 16-19;
Giuseppe Zaccai from the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France, describes how he and his co-workers have uncovered a way to explore water dynamics in the cell interior using neutron scattering and isotope labelling.
Ages: 16-19;
Anastasios Koutsos, Alexandra Manaia, and Julia Willingale-Theune bring a sophisticated molecular biology technique into the classroom.
Ages: 16-19;
Luis Peralta, professor at the University of Lisbon’s physics department, and Carmen Oliveira, physics and chemistry teacher at Casquilhos High School in Barreiro near Lisbon, describe the ‘Environmental radiation’ project, in which students become actively and enthusiastically involved in…
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Halina Stanley introduces a number of spectacular classroom experiments using microwaves.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Leroy Hood talks to Marlene Rau, Anna-Lynn Wegener and Sonia Furtado about his long-standing commitment to innovative science teaching, and how he came to be known as the father of systems biology.
Ages: 16-19;
From jellyfish to arsenic detectors via a Nobel Prize: Sonia Furtado reports on the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, and interviews scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, about its applications.
Ages: 16-19;
Ľudmila Onderová from PJ Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia, introduces us to the use of black boxes in the physics classroom.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Can you play world-class sport, and also be part of a team that tries to understand the nature of our Universe? Yes – just ask Tamara Davis. Henri Boffin from ESO talked to her in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
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Biodiversity: a look back at 2009
Topics: Biology, General science
| Issue 14
Getting ahead in evolution
Topics: Biology, General science
| Issue 13
The intracellular environment: not so muddy waters
Topics: Physics, General science, Biology, Chemistry, Science and society
| Issue 12
Fishing for genes: DNA microarrays in the classroom
Topics: Biology, Health, Science and society, General science
| Issue 12
Radioactivity in the classroom
Topics: Physics, Earth science, Science and society, General science
| Issue 12
Microwave experiments at school
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Science and society, General science
| Issue 12
New approaches to old systems: interview with Leroy Hood
Topics: Biology, General science, Science and society
| Issue 12
Painting life green: GFP
Topics: Biology, General science, Science and society
| Issue 12
Physics: a black box?
Topics: Physics, General science
| Issue 10
“Intelligence is of secondary importance in research”
Topics: Astronomy / space, General science
