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Making pH-sensitive inks from fruits and vegetables is a creative variation of the cabbage-indicator experiment.
Ages: <11, 11-14;
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn,” Benjamin Franklin once said. Make that quote yours and involve your students in a real cancer-research project that will teach them more than just genetics and cell death.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Psychology is teaching us how to make food sweeter without changing its ingredients.
Ages: 16-19;
When thinking about diffraction studies, X-rays most often come to mind, but neutrons can also provide important structural information – and could help in the fight against HIV.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Methional played centre stage at the recent Second International Contest for Note by Note Cooking. The challenge: to make dishes containing only methional and ‘pure’ compounds such as milk proteins, alcohols, amino acids and flavour chemicals, and, ideally, no plant tissues, meat, fish or eggs
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Building a hypothetical family portrait can help students to understand genetics.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16;
These simple but unusual life forms can be used to develop students’ understanding of life and the scientific method.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Teen blogger Julia Paoli and her teacher Lali DeRosier discuss how blogging can help science students
Ages: 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 EIROs.
Ages: not applicable;
Why do giant redwoods grow so tall and then stop? It all has to do with how high water can travel up their branches.
Ages: 16-19;
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An artistic introduction to anthocyanin inks
Topics: Physics, Biology, Chemistry, General science
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Cell spotting – let’s fight cancer together!
Topics: Biology
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The perfect meal
Topics: Biology, General science, Chemistry, Science and society
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Fighting HIV with neutrons
Topics: Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Health
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From methional to fried chicken
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
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All in the family
Topics: Biology, Mathematics
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Intelligent slime? A hands-on project to investigate slime moulds
Topics: Biology
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Blog about it! Getting students closer to science
Topics: Biology, General science
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Reflecting on another three months’ worth of advances
Topics: News from the EIROs, General science, Physics, Biology
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How water travels up trees
Topics: Biology
