How to understand a COVID-19 test result
A negative result from a medical test means you definitely don’t have the condition, right? Wrong: it depends on the false negative rate of the test and on your individual risk.
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A negative result from a medical test means you definitely don’t have the condition, right? Wrong: it depends on the false negative rate of the test and on your individual risk.
Not just for remote teaching: virtual labs really came into their own during the COVID-19 pandemic, but they can generally be a useful addition to the STEM teacher’s toolbox.
The rush to find treatments for COVID-19 led to a badly flawed clinical trial influencing medical treatment worldwide. What went wrong?
How do scientists piece together genomic information from sequencing data? Play these two fun online puzzles to find out.
Explore phase transitions between different states of matter through a series of engaging hands-on experiments.
A study of 200 million-year-old teeth from the earliest mammals provides fascinating insight into how they lived.
Your mission: to land an intrepid egg-naut safely on the surface of the Moon and learn about classical mechanics along the way.
Fusion and fission: both release energy, but how do these processes differ and what are the implications for electricity generation?
Ever wondered what the weather is like on planets outside our solar system? Scientists have recently discovered an exoplanet where it rains iron!
How have scientists been working to tackle COVID-19 during the pandemic? This interview from European XFEL gives some interesting insight.
How to understand a COVID-19 test result
Virtual labs, real science
Clinical trials count on more than statistics
Microbial genome puzzles
States of matter & phase transitions
Ancient tiny teeth reveal first mammals lived more like reptiles
Landing on the Moon – planning and designing a lunar lander
Fusion vs fission
ESO telescope observes exoplanet where it rains iron
Pulling together: a collaborative research approach to study COVID-19