Weighing up the evidence: what is a kilo?
We all know what a kilogram is – or do we? Researchers worldwide are working to define precisely what this familiar unit is.
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We all know what a kilogram is – or do we? Researchers worldwide are working to define precisely what this familiar unit is.
Learn how you and your students can use mathematics to study Jupiter’s moons.
Contrary to the popular saying, deep waters are often far from still – which is just as well for marine life. Activities using simple water tanks are a good way to find out about the physics at work beneath the waves.
Until a few centuries ago, people believed that the world was made only of earth, air, water and fire. Since then, scientists have discovered 118 elements and the search is on for element 119.
CERN’s director general tells the story behind the Higgs boson – and describes the next steps.
Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight of Europe’s largest inter-governmental scientific research organisations. This article reviews some of the latest news from the EIROforum members (EIROs).
Finding out what is going on in the core of a fusion experiment at 100 million degrees Celsius is no easy matter, but there are clever ways to work it out.
From a homemade thermometer to knitting needles that grow: here are some simple but fun experiments for primary-school pupils to investigate what happens to solids, liquids and gases when we heat them.
In the third article in this series on astronomy and the electromagnetic spectrum, learn about the exotic and powerful cosmic phenomena that astronomers investigate with X-ray and gamma-ray observatories, including the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton and INTEGRAL missions.
Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight of Europe’s largest inter-governmental scientific research organisations. This article reviews some of the latest news from the EIROforum members (EIROs).
Weighing up the evidence: what is a kilo?
Galileo and the moons of Jupiter: exploring the night sky of 1610
Movers and shakers: physics in the oceans
The numbers game: extending the periodic table
Accelerating the pace of science: interview with CERN’s Rolf Heuer
Cool and hot science for a bright future
Seeing the light: monitoring fusion experiments
The effect of heat: simple experiments with solids, liquids and gases
More than meets the eye: the exotic, high-energy Universe
Bigger, faster, hotter