The science of humour: Allan Reiss
Men and women react differently to humour. Allan Reiss tells Eleanor Hayes why this is news.
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Men and women react differently to humour. Allan Reiss tells Eleanor Hayes why this is news.
Friedlinde Krotscheck describes how she used a cutting-edge science article from Science in School as the main focus of a teaching unit on the human body.
Teaching science in primary school can be challenging. Astrid Kaiser and Marlene Rau describe a rich source of online materials in three languages – and highlight some activities about oil and water.
How do fossils form around hydrothermal vents? Crispin Little describes how he and his team found out – by making their own fossils.
David Fischer takes us on a trip to the bottom of the sea to learn about cold seeps – their ecosystems, potential fuels, and possible involvement in global warming.
Sarah Garner and Rachel Thomas consider why well-designed and properly analysed experiments are so important when testing how effective a medical treatment is.
How does cancer develop, and how can geneticists tell that a cell is cancerous? This teaching activity developed by the Communication and Public Engagement team from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK, answers these and other related questions.
What if you could witness the development of a new life, taking your time to study every detail, every single cell, from every angle, moment by moment? Sonia Furtado talks to the scientists who made this possible by creating a digital zebrafish embryo.
Since the epidemic of ‘mad cow disease’ in the 1980s and 90s, and the emergence of its human equivalent, variant Creutzfeld-Jacob disease, there has been a great deal of research into prions, the causative agents. Mico Tatalovic reviews the current state of knowledge.
EIROforum Click to enlarge image EIROforumw1 is a collaboration between seven European inter-governmental scientific research organisations. The organisations focus on very different types of research – from molecular biology to astronomy, from fusion energy to space science. They use very…
The science of humour: Allan Reiss
Using cutting-edge science within the curriculum: balancing body weight
LeSa21: primary-school science activities
Hot stuff in the deep sea
Cold seeps: marine ecosystems based on hydrocarbons
Evaluating a medical treatment
Can you spot a cancer mutation?
Watching it grow: developing a digital embryo
Deadly proteins: prions
EIROforum: introducing the publisher of Science in School