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What do you find the biggest challenges in science teaching? Can Science in School help?
Ages: not applicable;
Get your hands dirty with these classroom experiments exploring the composition of soil – and find out why this matters.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16;
Darren Hughes from the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France takes a look at stress. How can it be manipulated to make safer rails for trains or more efficient wind turbines – and what can we learn from neutron- and X-ray analysis?
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Anna Lorenc from the Volvox project explains the importance of the enzyme urease and presents a protocol to demonstrate urease activity in the classroom.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Alison McLure tells Marlene Rau about her adventurous life as a physicist – from being a TV presenter and forecasting the weather in the Antarctic to taking gap-year students on an expedition to an island in the South Atlantic.
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;
Eleanor Hayes highlights some education resources about the nanoscale and nanotechnology.
Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16;
Bioinformatics is usually done with a powerful computer. With help from Cleopatra Kozlowski, however, you can investigate our primate ancestry – armed with nothing but a pen and paper.
Ages: not applicable;
You are what you eat – quite literally. Our diet can influence the tiny changes in our genome that underlie several diseases, including cancer and obesity.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight of Europe’s largest inter-governmental scientific research organisations (EIROs). This article reviews some of the latest news from the EIROs.
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| Issue 40
The challenges of science teaching
Topics: Inspire
| Issue 42
Field research: discovering the structure of soil
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Earth science
| Issue 5
Taking the stress out of engineering
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Engineering
| Issue 9
Investigating the action of urease
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
| Issue 11
“Admitting to being a physicist isn’t really the best chat-up line”
Topics: Profiles
| Issue 12
New approaches to old systems: interview with Leroy Hood
Topics: Biology, General science, Science and society
| Issue 17
School experiments at the nanoscale
Topics: Chemistry, General science
| Issue 17
Bioinformatics with pen and paper: building a phylogenetic tree
Topics: Biology
| Issue 28
Food that shapes you: how diet can change your epigenome
Topics: Biology, General science, Chemistry
| Issue 39
Sea cucumbers, celebrations and student internships
Topics: News from the EIROs, Physics, Biology, Chemistry
