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A negative result from a medical test means you definitely don’t have the condition, right? Wrong: it depends on the false negative rate of the test and on your individual risk.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
How have scientists been working to tackle COVID-19 during the pandemic? This interview from European XFEL gives some interesting insight.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Fresh water is a scarce resource on our planet – but how many of us are aware of how much water is needed to make the foods we eat every day?
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
As scientists worldwide try to understand and help tackle the coronavirus pandemic, we take a brief look at what is currently known about this new virus.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Are you tempted to buy ‘superfoods’ for health reasons, despite the higher prices? These activities encourage students to explore some of the claims made for these celebrity foods.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
New studies are uncovering how emissions from daily household activities pollute the air we breathe at home.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Encourage students to stay safe in the sun with a collection of activities to discover the science behind sunscreen.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
An advanced technology that combines high-frequency sound waves with laser light is giving researchers and clinicians a new way of seeing living tissue.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Create a living piece of ‘agar art’ to discover the invisible world of microbes living on our hands.
Ages: <11, 11-14;
Over several decades, the search for new medicines has progressed from mimicking natural molecules to screening many millions of compounds.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
| Issue 52
How to understand a COVID-19 test result
Topics: Biology, Health, Science and society
| Issue 51
Pulling together: a collaborative research approach to study COVID-19
Topics: Biology, Health, Science and society
| Issue 50
Do you know your water footprint?
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Earth science, Health, Science and society
| Issue 50
Coronavirus: the science in brief
Topics: Biology, Health, Science and society
| Issue 49
Are ‘superfoods’ really so super?
Topics: Chemistry, Health
| Issue 48
Take a deep breath? Investigating indoor air pollution
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Health
| Issue 48
How effective is your sunscreen?
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Health
| Issue 47
Photoacoustics: seeing with sound
Topics: Physics, Biology, Health
| Issue 46
Painting in a petri dish
Topics: Biology, Health
| Issue 46
The changing technologies of drug design
Topics: Chemistry, Health
