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Gemma Guilera tells Montserrat Capellas about the joys of her rollercoaster approach to life. Fearlessly, she has started a new life more than once, making her home in very different European cities in the pursuit of a scientific career. Today, she faces a new challenge: motherhood.
Ages: 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;
In our feature article, Vienna Leigh interviews Professor Lewis Wolpert, who leads a research group on the development of the embryo and is active in science communication. He shares with us his controversial ideas about belief, science education and much more. Whether you agree with him or not,…
Ages: not applicable;
This short book describes the development of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species and examines its wider impact.
Ages: 16-19;
In the first of two articles, climate researcher Rasmus Benestad from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute examines the evidence for climate change.
Ages: 16-19;
Bringing marine science into the classroom can be challenging work for teachers. So why not take the classroom – and the teachers – to sea? Vikki Gunn’s Classroom@Sea project does just that.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Students Jan Měšťan and Jan Kotek and teacher Marek Tyle from the Gymnázium Písek in the Czech Republic won the 2007 Catch a Star competition. Sai Pathmanathan describes their prize-winning project.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
These two DVD sets, produced by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as part of its Holiday Lectures on Science programme, address two highly interesting subjects which directly or indirectly affect our everyday lives: biological clocks and evolution.
Ages: 16-19;
By Claas Wegner, Friederike Strehlke and Phillip Weber These simple but unusual life forms can be used to develop students’ understanding of life and the scientific method A plasmodium in its natural habitat Image courtesy of Frankenstoen/Wikimedia commons Moving red or yellow slime might sound…
By Mario Mitov and Yolina Hubenova Could hydrogen be the best alternative for fossil fuels? This demonstration shows how a hydrogen economy might work in practice. While fossil fuel resources are slowly being exhausted, the growing population of our planet is consuming ever more and more energy. We…
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Chemistry: a career catalyst
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Fusion in the Universe: gamma-ray bursts
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Welcome to the seventh issue of Science in School
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Darwin’s ‘The Origin of Species’, By Janet Browne
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What do we know about climate? The evidence for climate change
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Earth science
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Classroom@Sea: bringing real marine science into the classroom
Topics: Earth science
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Students Catch a Star: researching and observing a solar eclipse
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
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Clockwork Genes: Discoveries in Biological Time and Evolution: Constant Change and Common Threads
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