Glaciers on Mars: looking for the ice
One of the scientists’ main interests in Mars research is water. Is there water on Mars?
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One of the scientists’ main interests in Mars research is water. Is there water on Mars?
You are what you eat – quite literally. Our diet can influence the tiny changes in our genome that underlie several diseases, including cancer and obesity.
Cell’s movements are important in health and diseases, but their speed is the crucial point for the 2013 World Cell Race organised by Daniel Irimia.
Many naturally occurring compounds are useful in medicine – but they can be fabulously expensive to obtain from their natural sources. New scientific methods of synthesis and production are overcoming this problem.
For doctor Stefan Pfister, efforts to cure cancer happen at the hospital and in the laboratory.
Bring discovery into the classroom and show students how to evaluate Planck’s constant using simple equipment.
A simple fungus used to brew beer is now used around the world to advance cancer research.
Iodine, with its characteristic purple vapours, has myriad applications – from the familiar disinfectant to innovative solar cells.
A group of German researchers is bringing to light the medicinal wisdom of the Middle Ages.
Having difficulties explaining black holes to your students? Why not try these simple activities in the classroom?
Glaciers on Mars: looking for the ice
Food that shapes you: how diet can change your epigenome
Making the right moves
Inspired by nature: modern drugs
Doctor in the morning, researcher in the afternoon
Classroom fundamentals: measuring the Planck constant
From model organism to medical advances
Purple fumes: the importance of iodine
Monastic medicine: medieval herbalism meets modern science
Peering into the darkness: modelling black holes in primary school