Science goes underground
Scientists are searching deep underground for hard-to-detect particles that stream across the Universe.
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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.
A new tool lets astronomers ‘listen’ to the Universe for the first time.
Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight of Europe’s largest inter-governmental scientific research organisations (EIROs). This article reviews some of the latest news from the EIROs.
Intrigue your students with some surprising experiments – it’s a great way to challenge their intuitions and explore the laws of mechanics.
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.
Simulate a neuron in the classroom.
Hot, luminous and destructive: fire is a force of nature. Here we look at how to use and control it safely with water and carbon dioxide.
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.
Science goes underground
Climate change: why the oceans matter
Turning on the cosmic microphone
Sea cucumbers, celebrations and student internships
When things don’t fall: the counter-intuitive physics of balanced forces
The ethics of genetics
The resting potential: introducing foundations of the nervous system
Practical pyrotechnics
Blended senses: understanding synaesthesia
Wind and rain: meteorology in the classroom