Cancer stem cells – hope for the future?
Cancer and stem cells are both topical issues. But have you heard of cancer stem cells? As Massimiliano Mazza explains, this concept may revolutionise the treatment of cancer.
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Cancer and stem cells are both topical issues. But have you heard of cancer stem cells? As Massimiliano Mazza explains, this concept may revolutionise the treatment of cancer.
Crowding affects us almost every day, from supermarket queues to traffic jams. Timothy Saunders from EMBL explains why this is interesting to scientists and how to study the phenomenon in class.
Even everyday scents have the power to take us back in time, awakening half-forgotten memories. With Gianluca Farusi’s help, you can take your students 2000 years into the past, recreating and testing Julius Caesar’s perfume.
Daniella Muallem tells Eleanor Hayes about challenging misleading ‘scientific’ claims.
What types of plastic are used to build a car? How are they synthesised and recycled? Marlene Rau and Peter Nentwig introduce two activities from the ‘Chemie im Kontext’ project.
How can we tackle climate change? Using activities and technologies that already exist – as Dudley Shallcross and Tim Harrison explain.
Matt Kaplan investigates the horrors that dwell within us – should we be changing our view of them?
Claudia Mignone and Rebecca Barnes take us on a tour through the electromagnetic spectrum and introduce us to the European Space Agency’s fleet of science missions, which are opening our eyes to a mysterious and hidden Universe.
Keen to save the world? Andy Newsam and Chris Leigh from the UK’s National Schools’ Observatory introduce an activity where you can potentially do just that: by detecting real asteroids – which may be heading for Earth.
Roller coasters, carousels and other amusement park rides can be great fun – and can even be used as a science lesson, as Giovanni Pezzi explains.
Cancer stem cells – hope for the future?
The physics of crowds
Smell like Julius Caesar: recreating ancient perfumes in the laboratory
Warrior against pseudoscience: Daniella Muallem
Plastics in cars: polymerisation and recycling
Is climate change all gloom and doom? Introducing stabilisation wedges
Healthy horrors: the benefits of parasites
More than meets the eye: the electromagnetic spectrum
Hunting for asteroids
Going wild: teaching physics on a roller coaster