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Ana Lopes and Henri Boffin take us on a trip back in time – probing the history of the Universe.
Ages: 16-19;
Halina Stanley describes how two Israeli scientists investigated plasma balls and in the process found a potentially useful way to create nanoparticles.
Ages: 16-19;
Lucy Patterson spoke to Greek science teacher Theodoros Pierratos, who recently won the chance to bring physics to life for his students in a truly extraordinary way with the help of the European Space Agency.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Ľudmila Onderová from PJ Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia, introduces us to the use of black boxes in the physics classroom.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Do you believe that time travel has no place in a serious science lesson? Jim Al-Khalili from the University of Surrey, UK, disagrees. He shows how the topic of time travel introduces some of the ideas behind Einstein’s theories of relativity.
Ages: 16-19;
In the second of two articles, Rolf Landua from CERN takes us deep below the ground to visit the largest scientific endeavour on Earth – the Large Hadron Collider and its experiments.
Ages: 16-19;
On 10 September 2008 at 10:28 am, the world’s largest particle accelerator – the Large Hadron Collider – was switched on. But why? In the first of two articles, Rolf Landua from CERN and Marlene Rau from EMBL investigate the big unresolved questions of particle physics and what the LHC can…
Ages: 16-19;
Herbi Dreiner and Tobias Strehlau describe how a university physics show inspired a secondary-school teacher and his students to perform their own school physics show. Why not try it in your school?
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Any book that has in its introduction “Physics is the action department of science... only physics can explain what happens if you throw [an apple] at a brick wall at 200 mph” has my attention.
Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Henri Boffin from ESOw1 in Garching, Germany, follows the mystery of gamma-ray bursts from their first discovery to the most recent research on these dramatic astronomical explosions.
Ages: 16-19;
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The first light in the Universe
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
| Issue 12
Plasma balls: creating the 4th state of matter with microwaves
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Engineering
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A classroom in space
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
| Issue 12
Physics: a black box?
Topics: Physics, General science
| Issue 11
Time travel: science fact or science fiction?
Topics: Astronomy / space
| Issue 10
The LHC: a look inside
Topics: Physics, Engineering
| Issue 10
The LHC: a step closer to the Big Bang
Topics: Physics
| Issue 9
Fun physics in school: students perform for students
Topics: Physics
| Issue 9
Can You Feel the Force? Putting the Fizz Back into Physics, By Richard Hammond
Topics: Resources
| Issue 7
Fusion in the Universe: gamma-ray bursts
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
