When plants moved ashore and changed the planet
Plants today are extremely diverse, abundant, and flamboyant. However, the first land plants, which initiated a great change in the flora and fauna on planet Earth, were very different.
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Plants today are extremely diverse, abundant, and flamboyant. However, the first land plants, which initiated a great change in the flora and fauna on planet Earth, were very different.
Meet the planarian, a fascinating flatworm with incredible biological abilities unique and surprising ways responses to various stimuli.
Do air convection currents really move as they are drawn in textbook illustrations? Let’s make invisible convection currents visible using mist.
We can’t image our home galaxy from the outside, so how do we study it? Learn how astronomers unveil the dramatic past of the Milky Way and peer into its future.
Discover simple adaptations to apparatus and experiments that make practical chemistry more accessible to students with vision impairment.
Everybody dance now: students hold ropes and dance to form a topological tangle. Using fraction arithmetic, the knot will finally be untied!
Future food: would you bite into a test-tube burger or a Petri dish steak? How do we make lab-grown meat, and what might it mean for health, farming, and the environment?
Fantastic beasts: take a microscopic moss safari and learn about the diverse and resilient organisms that live in this challenging habitat.
Play the part: students take on the roles of different components of a synapse to act out synaptic transmission and learn about neurobiology.
Explore the everyday science behind the quest to harness fusion energy – the energy that powers the stars – in a safe way here on Earth.
When plants moved ashore and changed the planet
Hands-on experiments with planaria
A misty way to see convection currents
Galactic Archaeology: how we study our home galaxy
Making chemistry accessible for students with vision impairment
Dance, tangles, and topology!
From Petri dish to plate: the journey of cultivated meat
Moss Safari: what lives in moss?
Hold your nerve: acting out chemical synaptic transmission
The everyday science of fusion