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Why was a Nobel prize awarded for 'click chemistry'? Learn about the ground-breaking advance behind this simple-sounding name.
Ages: 16-19;
Great balls of fire: Try these dramatic experiments with gases to illustrate stoichiometric reactions and combustion.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
What's wrong with 'chemical-free' labels? Is ‘natural’ necessarily better? Learn how to spot pseudoscientific fake news in the media.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
How do social drugs affect metabolism? How is toxicity measured? How does climate change affect water ecosystems? Promote active learning by investigating these questions with Daphnia.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
When life gives you lemons: use limonene to explore molecular properties with your students and show them the scientific method in action.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Trees are incredible chemical factories that capture carbon dioxide and produce the oxygen we breathe, but they produce other chemicals too. We need to understand their effect in the atmosphere to get the most out of tree-planting initiatives.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Dropping out: learn about the chemistry of precipitation and introduce your students to chemical reactions that form colourful new compounds using microscale chemistry methods that are cheap, quick, and easy to do.
Ages: 14-16, 11-14, 16-19;
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs struck Earth during springtime. Scientists have determined this by analyzing the remains of fish that died directly after the impact.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
What do carrots and flamingos have in common? At first glance, not much, but look closer. Their rosy glows have surprisingly similar origins!
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Clearing up chemistry: household products like nail polish remover and laundry detergent can be used to demonstrate chemical concepts like intermolecular forces and redox reactions.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
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Click does the trick: understanding the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Health
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Playing with fire: stoichiometric reactions and gas combustion
Topics: Chemistry, Physics
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Fake news in chemistry and how to deal with it
Topics: Chemistry, Science and society
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From drugs to climate change: hands-on experiments with Daphnia as a model organism
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Earth science, Health
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Citrus science: learn with limonene
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
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How trees affect the climate: is it just through photosynthesis?
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Earth science, Science and society, Sustainability
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Pleasing precipitation performances – the microscale way
Topics: Chemistry, Sustainability
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The reign of the dinosaurs ended in spring
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Earth science, News from the EIROs
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Colour in nature: think pink
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
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Household chemistry: solvents and stain removers
Topics: Chemistry, Science and society
