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Online tools can be used to compare the sequences of proteins and understand how different organisms have evolved.
Ages: 16-19;
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.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
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.
Ages: 16-19;
When measuring the chemistry of the atmosphere, it helps to fly up in specially modified laboratories.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
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.
Ages: 16-19;
One of the scientists’ main interests in Mars research is water. Is there water on Mars?
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
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.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
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.
Ages: 16-19;
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.
Ages: 16-19;
For doctor Stefan Pfister, efforts to cure cancer happen at the hospital and in the laboratory.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
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Using biological databases to teach evolution and biochemistry
Topics: Biology
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Simulating the effect of the solar wind
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space, Engineering
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Super cold meets super hot
Topics: Physics, Engineering
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Up, up and away: using aircraft for atmospheric monitoring
Topics: Chemistry, Earth science
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Experiments in integrity – Fritz Haber and the ethics of chemistry
Topics: Chemistry, Science and society
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Glaciers on Mars: looking for the ice
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space, Earth science
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Food that shapes you: how diet can change your epigenome
Topics: Biology, General science, Chemistry
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Making the right moves
Topics: Biology, General science
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Inspired by nature: modern drugs
Topics: Chemistry, General science, Health
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Doctor in the morning, researcher in the afternoon
Topics: Profiles
