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Say ‘stem cells’ and you can guarantee some strong opinions and heated debate.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Life has a funny habit of turning out quite differently from what you expect. Take Christian Mellwig, for example. He explains to Vienna Leigh that he was determined that, whatever path he took in life, it wouldn’t be teaching.
Ages: not applicable;
Alison McLure tells Marlene Rau about her adventurous life as a physicist – from being a TV presenter and forecasting the weather in the Antarctic to taking gap-year students on an expedition to an island in the South Atlantic.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Do you believe that time travel has no place in a serious science lesson? Jim Al-Khalili from the University of Surrey, UK, disagrees. He shows how the topic of time travel introduces some of the ideas behind Einstein’s theories of relativity.
Ages: 16-19;
Rebecca Skloot tells Sonia Furtado and Marlene Rau how she became a science writer, where she finds inspiration for her stories - and invites you to enter the Science in School science writing competition.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Autumn showers, shortening days, jet-lag… nothing could dampen the enthusiasm of teachers, students and journalists from around the world who took part in the Spanish and German Science on Stage events. Sonia Furtado reports.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Water – Humanity’s Project is a CD-ROM containing a collection of about 300 pieces of media that examine water as an element of daily life as well as an important local and global issue. The collection is suitable for students and teachers of all levels.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Next year, I hope to take a small group of students, aged 15-18, to Iquitos in Peru, where we will board a boat to take us up the Amazon to study the rainforest. So I was particularly interested to see that Iquitos is featured in the Introduction to Ecosystems series of slides on Ecology, a media…
Ages: 16-19;
Conspiracies are at the heart of many a good film and book. Swedish biology teacher Per Kornhall is the author of a critical book on intelligent design and how it is taught in biology lessons in religious schools in Sweden. He talks to Sai Pathmanathan and Marlene Rau about his fascination with…
Ages: not applicable;
Originally, Nadia Salem wanted to become a research biologist and find a cure for cancer. Today, she is a reporter for Nano, a daily science magazine on German-language TV. Nadia talked to Marlene Rau about the unpredictability of life and the joys of being a science journalist.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
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Potent Biology: Stem Cells, Cloning, and Regeneration, By Douglas A. Melton and Nadia Rosenthal
Topics: Resources
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Serendipity in life (and) science: Christian Mellwig
Topics: Profiles
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“Admitting to being a physicist isn’t really the best chat-up line”
Topics: Profiles
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Time travel: science fact or science fiction?
Topics: Astronomy / space
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How to write a good science story: writing competition
Topics: Events
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Science on Stage: recent international events
Topics: Events
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Water – Humanity s Project: media collection for the classroom, By Siemens AG
Topics: Resources
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Ecology: media presentation CD-ROM, By Biozone
Topics: Resources
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Teaching in Sweden: tackling creationism, making waves
Topics: Profiles
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The winding road to science journalism
Topics: Profiles
