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Sabine Hentze and Martina Muckenthaler tell Lucy Patterson about their work – detecting genetic diseases and counselling potentially affected patients.
Ages: 16-19;
Plants today are extremely diverse, abundant, and flamboyant. However, the first land plants, which initiated a great change in the flora and fauna on planet Earth, were very different.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
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.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Small but mighty: investigate the role of herbaceous plants in the school garden for their contribution to biodiversity and sequestering carbon dioxide.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Paul Tafforeau from the University of Poitiers and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, explains what synchrotron X-ray studies of fossil teeth can tell us about the evolution of orang-utans – and our own origins.
Ages: 16-19;
Could chicken soup and other traditional home-made broths have healing powers? Bioscientist Jake Baum decided to explore this question – with the help of a local primary school.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Blinded by the light: We rely on lights to see in the dark, but did you know that light pollution has serious environmental consequences?
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
You may have heard pathology labs mentioned in crime shows, but what is plant pathology? Find out about the feuds between plant and pathogen that span millions of years.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
A waste of space: years of human activity in space have left thousands of objects in orbit around the Earth. Learn more about the risks they pose and what we can do about it.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Everyone knows what symmetry is. In this article, though, Mario Livio from the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, USA, explains how not only shapes, but also laws of nature, can be symmetrical.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
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Getting a grip on genetic diseases
Topics: Biology, Health
| Issue 64
When plants moved ashore and changed the planet
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Earth science
| Issue 50
Grow your own statistical data
Topics: Biology, Mathematics
| Issue 69
Biodiversity and biomass in the school garden
Topics: Biology, Earth science, Science and society, Sustainability
| Issue 5
Synchrotron light illuminates the orang-utan’s obscure origins
Topics: Physics, Biology
| Issue 50
Soup – an evidence-based medicine?
Topics: Profiles
| Issue 56
Too much of a good thing – the problem of light pollution
Topics: Astronomy / space, Biology, Science and society, Sustainability
| Issue 62
Plant pathology: plants can get sick too!
Topics: Biology, Science and society, Sustainability
| Issue 65
Objects in orbit: the problem of space debris
Topics: Astronomy / space, Earth science, Engineering, News from the EIROs, Physics, Science and society
| Issue 2
Symmetry rules
Topics: Physics, Mathematics
