Students and science collide: CERN’s Beamline for Schools competition
Give your students the opportunity to work as real scientists and win a unique experience experimenting at CERN.
 
    
    
    
    
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                    Give your students the opportunity to work as real scientists and win a unique experience experimenting at CERN.                    
         
                    Pathogens that threaten human health are constantly evolving to keep ahead of our defences. But we can now track these changes at the genetic level, even as they are happening.                    
         
                    By assembling a ‘backpack laboratory’, you can break away from the lab bench and take tests for starch and glucose into the wild outdoors.                    
         
                    How many ‘chemicals’ are there in a fresh mushroom? These simple experiments reveal the hidden chemistry within natural foods.                    
         
                    Can you stop the tray from tipping? Learn about the law of the lever to beat your opponent in this simple game.                      
         
                    Insights into the brain’s unique protective barrier could offer promising treatments for diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s.                    
         
                    Antimatter has inspired many science fiction stories, but these fascinating facts show that it is not just reserved for fantasy.                    
         
                    A unique experiment tracks microbes changing over thousands of generations – so we can watch evolution on fast-forward.                    
         
                    From samurai swords to healthy tomato plants, this little-known element has wider uses than you might expect.                    
         
                    Gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein – but where do they come from, and what different types might there be out in the cosmos?                    
        
            
                Students and science collide: CERN’s Beamline for Schools competition            
        
        
            
                Evolution in action: pathogens            
        
        
            
                Natural experiments: taking the lab outdoors            
        
        
            
                Natural experiments: chemistry with mushrooms            
        
        
            
                Balancing act: the physics of levers            
        
        
            
                Guardian of the brain: the blood-brain barrier            
        
        
            
                Ten things you might not know about antimatter            
        
        
            
                Evolution in action: the 67 000-generation experiment            
        
        
            
                Elements in focus: molybdenum            
        
        
            
                Gravitational waves: a taxonomy