Healthy horrors: the benefits of parasites
Matt Kaplan investigates the horrors that dwell within us – should we be changing our view of them?
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Matt Kaplan investigates the horrors that dwell within us – should we be changing our view of them?
What do continental drift, nuclear power stations and supernovae have in common? Neutrinos, as Susana Cebrián explains.
Would it not be fascinating to observe and manipulate individual molecules? Patrick Theer and Marlene Rau from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory explain how, with an atomic force microscope, you can do just this. You could even build your own.
Twenty-five years ago, the discovery of the hole in the ozone layer hit the news. How have things developed since? Tim Harrison and Dudley Shallcross investigate.
Eleanor Hayes highlights some education resources about the nanoscale and nanotechnology.
Imagine sending music across the room by laser. Sounds impossible, doesn’t it? But Alessio Bernardelli’s students did just that – and then developed a play to explain the science behind it. Here’s how to do it.
In the second of two articles, Jarek Bryk describes how scientists dig deep into our genes – to test the molecular basis of an evolutionary adaptation in humans.
Men and women react differently to humour. Allan Reiss tells Eleanor Hayes why this is news.
Friedlinde Krotscheck describes how she used a cutting-edge science article from Science in School as the main focus of a teaching unit on the human body.
Have you ever looked up at the Moon in a clear night sky and wondered about the very few people who have walked on its surface? What did we learn, and what are we still unsure about? When might humans return to the Moon? Adam Baker investigates.
Healthy horrors: the benefits of parasites
Neutrinos: an introduction
Single molecules under the microscope
A hole in the sky
School experiments at the nanoscale
Stage lights: physics and drama
Human evolution: testing the molecular basis
The science of humour: Allan Reiss
Using cutting-edge science within the curriculum: balancing body weight
Space exploration: the return to the Moon