Grow your own statistical data
Would your students prefer to grow edible crops or wrangle with statistics? Here’s a way to combine these activities in a real-world application of statistical analysis.
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Would your students prefer to grow edible crops or wrangle with statistics? Here’s a way to combine these activities in a real-world application of statistical analysis.
As space missions venture to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn – and beyond – to look for the conditions for life, what alien life forms might be found in such exotic environments?
Are you tempted to buy ‘superfoods’ for health reasons, despite the higher prices? These activities encourage students to explore some of the claims made for these celebrity foods.
Try these crossword puzzles as an entertaining way for your students to brush up on their science general knowledge.
Theoretical physicist Maria Ubiali reflects on her role as a particle phenomenologist working at the interface between theory and experiment.
In Arctic regions, landscapes are changing fast. This has profound effects on their biological systems, but how are communities and their traditional lifestyles affected?
The possibility of worlds beyond our own has fascinated people for millennia. Now technology is bringing these other worlds – or exoplanets – within reach of discovery.
Three key factors were required for life to develop on Earth – but which factor came first? Recent research could help settle the debate.
New research is shedding light on the internal ‘clocks’ that help plants respond to changing day-night cycles.
Witness a spectacular chemical reaction and take some careful measurements to work out the empirical formula of a compound.
Grow your own statistical data
Alien life and where to find it
Are ‘superfoods’ really so super?
Science crosswords
Phenomenal physics
The social science of climate change
Hunting for exoplanets
Finding the recipe for life on Earth
How plants beat jet lag
Classic chemistry: finding the empirical formula