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Katie Wynne and Steve Bloom from Imperial College London, UK, describe their work on a hormone that could tackle the causes of obesity.
Ages: 16-19;
Have you ever wondered what bioinformatics is? Or what a bioinformatician does? Sai Pathmanathan and Eleanor Hayes talk to Nicky Mulder, a bioinformatician at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
With the help of enthusiastic school students and scientists, the Dutch school competition ‘Imagine’ supports the sustainable production of biodiesel in Mozambique, avocado oil in Kenya and the colorant byxine in Surinam. Daan Schuurbiers and Marije Blomjous, from the Foundation Imagine Life…
Ages: 16-19;
Pongprapan Pongsophon, Vantipa Roadrangka and Alison Campbell from Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand, demonstrate how a difficult concept in evolution can be explained with equipment as simple as a box of buttons!
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
An art teacher with a science degree? Karen Findlay put this unusual combination to good use with an ambitious film project.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
One of the many purposes of science is to support the humanities. With this in mind, Gianluca Farusi and his students set out to investigate and prepare iron-gall ink, a historically significant material for the transmission of knowledge.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Péter Székely from the University of Szeged, Hungary, and Örs Benedekfi from the European Fusion Development Agreement in Garching, Germany, investigate how a star dies and what a nearby supernova explosion would mean for us on Earth.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
In our feature article, we share with you the thoughts of Nobel Prize winner Tim Hunt as he talks to Philipp Gebhardt about his passion for science, the importance of pure research, the influence of enthusiastic colleagues – and the role of serendipity in scientific discovery.
Ages: not applicable;
Ever wished you could borrow a PCR machine for your lessons? And perhaps an expert to show your students how to use it? Marc van Mil introduces DNA labs that bring genomics directly to the classroom.
Ages: 16-19;
In Issue 4, we challenged you and your students to design the cover for Science in School and were very impressed by the quality of the entries. Despite gloomy studies about decreasing interest in the sciences, there are clearly a lot of very enthusiastic and artistically gifted young scientists in…
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
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Oxyntomodulin: a new therapy for obesity?
Topics: Biology, Health
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Nicky Mulder, bioinformatician
Topics: Profiles
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Imagine… sharing ideas in the life sciences
Topics: Biology
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Counting Buttons: demonstrating the Hardy-Weinberg principle
Topics: Biology
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The Boy Who Would Be Good: understanding ADHD through a film-making project
Topics: Health
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Monastic ink: linking chemistry and history
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
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Fusion in the Universe: when a giant star dies…
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
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Welcome to the sixth issue of Science in School
Topics: Uncategorized
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DNA labs on the road
Topics: Biology, Health
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Results of the cover competition
Topics: Events
