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School children in India built their own digital microscope, bent light and investigated gas laws. Find out how.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16;
More than 10 years ago, a very clever and inventive inhabitant from a favela discovered he could produce light without electricity. Now solar bulbs are spreading all over the world.
Ages: <11, 11-14;
Physicist Adrian Mancuso works at the cutting edge of 3D imaging, at what will be Europe’s newest and brightest X-ray facility.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Glowing jellyfish, flickering fireflies, fun glow sticks; Emma Welsh introduces the beautiful and mysterious world of chemiluminescence.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Imagine sending music across the room by laser. Sounds impossible, doesn’t it? But Alessio Bernardelli’s students did just that – and then developed a play to explain the science behind it. Here’s how to do it.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Ana Lopes and Henri Boffin take us on a trip back in time – probing the history of the Universe.
Ages: 16-19;
Sigrid Griet Eeckhout from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, investigates what determines the toxicity of mercury compounds – and how X-ray light is helping to solve the mystery.
Ages: 16-19;
Take a CD and a cereal box, and what do you have? With a little help from Mark Tiele Westra, your very own spectrometer! Time to explore the delights of colour, hidden in the most prosaic of objects.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
| Issue 34
Doing is understanding: science fun in India
Topics: Physics, Biology
| Issue 29
Light refraction in primary education: the solar bottle bulb
Topics: Physics, Engineering
| Issue 23
High-powered research: physicist Adrian Mancuso
Topics: Profiles
| Issue 19
What is chemiluminescence?
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
| Issue 17
Stage lights: physics and drama
Topics: Physics, Engineering, General science
| Issue 13
The first light in the Universe
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
| Issue 7
Mercury: a poisonous solution
Topics: Chemistry, Earth science
| Issue 4
A fresh look at light: build your own spectrometer
Topics: Physics
