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We’ve all heard that an antioxidant-rich diet is healthy. Together with his students, Gianluca Farusi compared the antioxidant levels in a range of foods and drinks.
Ages: 16-19;
Giuseppe Zaccai from the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France, describes how he and his co-workers have uncovered a way to explore water dynamics in the cell interior using neutron scattering and isotope labelling.
Ages: 16-19;
Do you enjoy the drama of science? The colour, the smells, the intricacies? Why not follow science teacher Bernhard Sturm’s suggestions: let your students bring yet more drama into the classroom by (re-)enacting science, to help them visualise and remember the lesson.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Halina Stanley introduces a number of spectacular classroom experiments using microwaves.
Ages: 14-16, 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;
Continuing our energy series, Menno van Dijk introduces us to the past, present and future of hydrocarbons – still the most common of all fuels.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Dominique Cornuéjols from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility introduces us to the world of crystallography. It’s not all shiny diamonds…
Ages: 16-19;
Karen Bultitude introduces a set of simple, fun and memorable demonstrations using everyday ingredients to explain meteorological phenomena.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Dudley Shallcross, Tim Harrison, Steve Henshaw and Linda Sellou offer chemistry and physics experiments harnessing alternative energy sources, such as non-fossil fuels.
Ages: 16-19;
Beat Blattmann and Patrick Sticher from the University of Zürich, Switzerland, explain the science behind protein crystallography and provide a protocol for growing your own crystals from protein – an essential method used by scientists to determine protein structures.
Ages: 16-19;
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Looking for antioxidant food
Topics: Physics, Biology, Chemistry
| Issue 13
The intracellular environment: not so muddy waters
Topics: Physics, General science, Biology, Chemistry, Science and society
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The drama of science
Topics: Physics, Chemistry
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Microwave experiments at school
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Science and society, General science
| Issue 12
Plasma balls: creating the 4th state of matter with microwaves
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Engineering
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Hydrocarbons: a fossil but not (yet) extinct
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Earth science, Engineering, Science and society
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Biological crystals: at the interface between physics, chemistry and biology
Topics: Physics, Biology, Chemistry
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Take the weather with you
Topics: Physics, Chemistry
| Issue 11
Fuelling interest: climate change experiments
Topics: Chemistry
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Growing crystals from protein
Topics: Physics, Biology, Chemistry
