Chemistry and light
Peter Douglas and Mike Garley investigate how chemistry and light interact in many aspects of our everyday life.
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Peter Douglas and Mike Garley investigate how chemistry and light interact in many aspects of our everyday life.
Eleanor Hayes, Holger Maul and Nele Freerksen investigate why folic acid is an essential component of your students’ diet – now and for a future healthy family.
Malcolm Fridlund from the European Space Agency (ESA) describes the search for extra-solar planets and explains how they can help us to understand the origin of life on Earth.
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.
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.
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.
Halina Stanley introduces a number of spectacular classroom experiments using microwaves.
Halina Stanley describes how two Israeli scientists investigated plasma balls and in the process found a potentially useful way to create nanoparticles.
Continuing our energy series, Menno van Dijk introduces us to the past, present and future of hydrocarbons – still the most common of all fuels.
Dominique Cornuéjols from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility introduces us to the world of crystallography. It’s not all shiny diamonds…
Chemistry and light
Folic acid: why school students need to know about it
The CoRoT satellite: the search for Earth-like planets
Looking for antioxidant food
The intracellular environment: not so muddy waters
The drama of science
Microwave experiments at school
Plasma balls: creating the 4th state of matter with microwaves
Hydrocarbons: a fossil but not (yet) extinct
Biological crystals: at the interface between physics, chemistry and biology