Life models
Model organisms – yeast, worms, flies and mice – help researchers to probe the secrets of life.
 
    
    
    
    
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                    Model organisms – yeast, worms, flies and mice – help researchers to probe the secrets of life.                    
         
                    Scientists are searching deep underground for hard-to-detect particles that stream across the Universe.                    
         
                    The role of our oceans in climate change is more complicated than you might think.                    
         
                    Do LGBT scientists feel they can be ‘out and proud’ at work? A biophysicist reflects on his own and other LGBT scientists’ experiences.                    
         
                    A new tool lets astronomers ‘listen’ to the Universe for the first time.                    
         
                    Today’s announcement that the UK has approved the creation of babies from two women and one man offers an invaluable opportunity to discuss some of the real issues of science with your students.                    
         
                    Welcome to the Science in School Advent calendar, packed with inspiring teaching ideas for Christmas, winter and the end of term.                    
         
                    Simulate a neuron in the classroom.                    
         
                    What would it be like if numbers and musical tones had colours? People with synaesthesia experience the world in this way – and scientists are trying to find out why.                    
         
                    Why does it rain? Can we predict it? Give physics students a mass of weather data and some information technology, and they can try working this out for themselves.                    
        
            
                Life models            
        
        
            
                Science goes underground            
        
        
            
                Climate change: why the oceans matter            
        
        
            
                Where are all the LGBT scientists? Sexuality and gender identity in science            
        
        
            
                Turning on the cosmic microphone            
        
        
            
                The ethics of genetics            
        
        
            
                Advent calendar 2016            
        
        
            
                The resting potential: introducing foundations of the nervous system            
        
        
            
                Blended senses: understanding synaesthesia            
        
        
            
                Wind and rain: meteorology in the classroom