Simulating the effect of the solar wind
The smooth operation of communications satellites can be influenced by solar weather. Mimic this effect on a smaller scale in the classroom with a simple demonstration.
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The smooth operation of communications satellites can be influenced by solar weather. Mimic this effect on a smaller scale in the classroom with a simple demonstration.
To keep refuelling its reactor, the EFDA-JET facility fires frozen hydrogen pellets into 150 million°C plasma. But these pellets have an added benefit as well.
When measuring the chemistry of the atmosphere, it helps to fly up in specially modified laboratories.
One hundred years after the start of the First World War, chemical weapons are still in the news. We consider some of the ethical questions behind the war’s chemical legacy.
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 EIROs.
With the FIFA World Cup, football fever seems to be everywhere and it is amazing to think how much the game has changed since the first one in 1930.
By Nina Notman Julia Paoli blogs at Viruses 101 Image courtesy of Julia Paoli Teen blogger Julia Paoli and her teacher Lali DeRosier discuss how blogging can help science students Last spring, Lali DeRosier was at a science communication conference geared towards teen bloggers. By chance, she…
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Although this is only the first issue of 2014, the academic year is already starting to draw to a close. By the time this issue reaches you, spring will have sprung and preparations for the end of year, and those dreaded exams, will be well underway. Spring, however, is a season of renewal – a…
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 EIROs.
Simulating the effect of the solar wind
Super cold meets super hot
Up, up and away: using aircraft for atmospheric monitoring
Experiments in integrity – Fritz Haber and the ethics of chemistry
Solving a sticky problem for cancer treatment and getting into the fusion energy game
Welcome to the twenty-nineth issue of Science in School
Issue 28
Citizen science: have you used it in your classroom?
Welcome to the twenty-eighth issue of SiS
From construction to destruction: building lasers and melting walls