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Sarah Garner and Rachel Thomas consider why well-designed and properly analysed experiments are so important when testing how effective a medical treatment is.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
How does cancer develop, and how can geneticists tell that a cell is cancerous? This teaching activity developed by the Communication and Public Engagement team from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK, answers these and other related questions.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
What if you could witness the development of a new life, taking your time to study every detail, every single cell, from every angle, moment by moment? Sonia Furtado talks to the scientists who made this possible by creating a digital zebrafish embryo.
Ages: 14-16;
Since the epidemic of ‘mad cow disease’ in the 1980s and 90s, and the emergence of its human equivalent, variant Creutzfeld-Jacob disease, there has been a great deal of research into prions, the causative agents. Mico Tatalovic reviews the current state of knowledge.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Nanoscale: Visualizing an Invisible World is a beautifully produced book, filled with engaging text and attractive illustrations, which provides a captivating tour of the ‘invisible’ world of the nanoscale.
Ages: not applicable;
Helke Hillebrand has always been fascinated by science, but on the back of a career in plant biology, her urge to work more closely with people helped her decide to go into tending young minds instead of new shoots. Vienna Leigh reports.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Earthquakes, global climate or the placement of wind farms – with the help of geographic information systems, these can all be investigated dynamically in the classroom. Joseph Kerski describes how.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
We’ve all sometimes felt ‘beside ourselves’, but have you ever felt that you were actually outside yourself – looking at yourself from outside your own body? Marta Paterlini talked to Henrik Ehrsson, a scientist studying this phenomenon.
Ages: 14-16;
Are you looking for ideas to spice up your earth science class? Why not try out one of the rich collection of activities developed by Chris King, Elizabeth Devon and Peter Kennett from Earth Learning Idea.
Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
This year has been proclaimed the International Year of Biodiversity. During 2010, governments will seek to reach agreement on a new biodiversity target, to be decided at the Nagoya summit in October. Will this enable us to save not only whales and tigers, but also our own species? Marlene Rau…
Ages: 14-16;
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Evaluating a medical treatment
Topics: Mathematics, Biology
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Can you spot a cancer mutation?
Topics: Biology, Health
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Watching it grow: developing a digital embryo
Topics: Biology
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Deadly proteins: prions
Topics: Biology, Health
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Nanoscale: Visualizing an Invisible World, By Kenneth S Deffeyes (author) & Stephen E Deffeyes (illustrator)
Topics: Resources
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Sowing the seeds of science: Helke Hillebrand
Topics: Profiles
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GIS: analysing the world in 3D
Topics: Earth science
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Exploring out-of-body experiences: interview with Henrik Ehrsson
Topics: Biology, General science, Health, Science and society
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Getting down to Earth: ideas for the earth science classroom
Topics: Biology, Earth science
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Homo sapiens – an endangered species?
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Earth science
