Tales from a plague pit
Archeology and genetics combine to reveal what caused the Black Death.
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Archeology and genetics combine to reveal what caused the Black Death.
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.
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?
Evolutionary relationships can be tricky to explain. By using simple, everyday objects, your students can work them out for themselves.
Using nothing but a pig’s heart, a knife and a supply of water, you and your students can investigate how the heart pumps.
How do we find out what’s going on inside a volcano? Using cosmic rays!
In the African forest, Fabian Leendertz and his team look for new infectious agents that can be transmitted from animals to humans. Could one of them cause the next pandemic?
Soaring temperatures, a flooded landscape, violent winds…. What would our planet be like without the Moon?
Tales from a plague pit
A range of scales: from fusing a nucleus to studying a dwarf planet
Purple fumes: the importance of iodine
Monastic medicine: medieval herbalism meets modern science
Peering into the darkness: modelling black holes in primary school
Phylogenetics of man-made objects: simulating evolution in the classroom
From the bottom of our hearts: a hands-on demonstration of the mammalian heartbeat
The secret life of volcanoes: using muon radiography
Evolving threats: investigating new zoonotic infections
Life without the Moon: a scientific speculation