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Use thin-layer chromatography to discover the variety of pigments that play a role in photosynthesis and give leaves their colour.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
How much do your students know about the properties of the chemical elements and how they are used? Find out with this elements quiz, based on articles in Science in School.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Teenagers are in transition from childhood to adulthood, so why does their behaviour differ from both these phases? Neuropsychologist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is looking for answers to this perennial question.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Human activities continue to influence our climate on a global scale, but a number of other interlinked mechanisms also play a role.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
An advanced technology that combines high-frequency sound waves with laser light is giving researchers and clinicians a new way of seeing living tissue.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Find out how women scientists contributed to knowledge of the chemical elements – and what this tells us about the nature of scientific work, then and now.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Investigate how enzymes in your laundry detergent get rid of stains – and which are most important for keeping clothes clean.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Identify tracks of subatomic particles from their ‘signatures’ in bubble chamber photos – a key 20th century technology for studying particle physics.
Ages: 16-19;
Step inside a science-inspired art exhibition where students bring biological molecules to life.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Over several decades, the search for new medicines has progressed from mimicking natural molecules to screening many millions of compounds.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
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Colour, chlorophyll and chromatography
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
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Quiz: elemental pursuit
Topics: Chemistry, General science
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Understanding the teenage brain
Topics: Profiles
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Ten things that affect our climate
Topics: Physics, Biology, Earth science
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Photoacoustics: seeing with sound
Topics: Physics, Biology, Health
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In their element: women of the periodic table
Topics: Chemistry
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Which laundry enzymes work best?
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
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Track inspection: how to spot subatomic particles
Topics: Physics
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Art meets molecular biology
Topics: Events
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The changing technologies of drug design
Topics: Chemistry, Health
