Greening chemistry
Chemistry is not always completely environmentally friendly; green chemistry is working to change that.
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Chemistry is not always completely environmentally friendly; green chemistry is working to change that.
Methional played centre stage at the recent Second International Contest for Note by Note Cooking. The challenge: to make dishes containing only methional and ‘pure’ compounds such as milk proteins, alcohols, amino acids and flavour chemicals, and, ideally, no plant tissues, meat, fish or eggs
Clues to the history of the Earth, the Milky Way and the Universe are hidden on the lunar surface.
Vasiliki Kioupi has always run science experiments with her students. Now she is also testing various pedagogical methods in her classroom and is moving towards teaching the teachers.
Could hydrogen be the best alternative for fossil fuels? This demonstration shows how a hydrogen economy might work in practice.
The world’s largest particle accelerator, the LHC, is deepening our understanding of what happened just after the Big Bang. Here’s how to explore the principles of a particle accelerator in your classroom.
These simple but unusual life forms can be used to develop students’ understanding of life and the scientific method.
On 26 December 2013, after a long and exciting trip, 56 secondary-school students from 18 countries arrived at their destination: the picturesque alpine village of Saint-Barthélemy, Italy, where the Astronomical Observatory of the Autonomous Region of the Aosta Valley (OAVdA) was built because of…
Teen blogger Julia Paoli and her teacher Lali DeRosier discuss how blogging can help science students
How do astronomers investigate the life cycle of stars? At the European Space Agency, it’s done using space-based missions that observe the sky in ultraviolet, visible and infrared light – as this fourth article in a series about astronomy and the electromagnetic spectrum describes.
Greening chemistry
From methional to fried chicken
Lunar Diary: a chronicle of Earth’s journey through space and time, as seen from the Moon
Experienced and experiencing teacher
A classroom hydrogen economy
Build your own particle accelerator
Intelligent slime? A hands-on project to investigate slime moulds
Camping under the stars — the ESO Astronomy Camp 2013
Blog about it! Getting students closer to science
More than meets the eye: how space telescopes see beyond the rainbow