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A string of glucose molecules: starch. It sounds simple, but it isn’t. Dominique Cornuéjols and Serge Pérez explore the intricacies of its structure – and show that the mystery is by no means solved.
Ages: 16-19;
Peter Douglas and Mike Garley investigate how chemistry and light interact in many aspects of our everyday life.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Ana Lopes and Henri Boffin take us on a trip back in time – probing the history of the Universe.
Ages: 16-19;
Halina Stanley introduces a number of spectacular classroom experiments using microwaves.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
As Head Conservator at the National Trust, Katy Lithgow’s education turned her into ‘more an arts person’ than a scientist – but her work has shown how the two can be inextricably linked. Vienna Leigh finds out how.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
From jellyfish to arsenic detectors via a Nobel Prize: Sonia Furtado reports on the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, and interviews scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, about its applications.
Ages: 16-19;
Halina Stanley describes how two Israeli scientists investigated plasma balls and in the process found a potentially useful way to create nanoparticles.
Ages: 16-19;
Dominique Cornuéjols from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility introduces us to the world of crystallography. It’s not all shiny diamonds…
Ages: 16-19;
Catching the influenza virus can be more than just a nuisance: these pathogens have caused the most deadly pandemic in recent history. Claire Ainsworth investigates how scientists are working to prevent it happening again.
Ages: 16-19;
Sigrid Griet Eeckhout from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, investigates what determines the toxicity of mercury compounds – and how X-ray light is helping to solve the mystery.
Ages: 16-19;
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Starch: a structural mystery
Topics: Physics, Chemistry
| Issue 14
Chemistry and light
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Science and society
| Issue 13
The first light in the Universe
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
| Issue 12
Microwave experiments at school
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Science and society, General science
| Issue 12
The science of preserving art
Topics: Profiles
| Issue 12
Painting life green: GFP
Topics: Biology, General science, Science and society
| Issue 12
Plasma balls: creating the 4th state of matter with microwaves
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Engineering
| Issue 11
Biological crystals: at the interface between physics, chemistry and biology
Topics: Physics, Biology, Chemistry
| Issue 11
Outmanoeuvering influenza’s tricks
Topics: Biology
| Issue 7
Mercury: a poisonous solution
Topics: Chemistry, Earth science
