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The brilliant yellows of van Gogh’s paintings are turning a nasty brown. Andrew Brown reveals how sophisticated X-ray techniques courtesy of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, can explain why.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Laurence Reed and Jackie de Belleroche discuss schizophrenia – and how functional genomics could help to identify its causes.
Ages: 16-19;
What do continental drift, nuclear power stations and supernovae have in common? Neutrinos, as Susana Cebrián explains.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
What does it take to live on the Moon or even Mars? Erin Tranfield suggests an interdisciplinary teaching activity to get your students thinking about this – and learning a lot of science along the way.
Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
As though planets from outside our Solar System were not exciting enough, astronomers have recently discovered a planet orbiting a star from outside our galaxy Johny Setiawan reports.
Ages: 16-19;
With the help of a detective game, Kenneth Wallace-Müller from the Gene Jury team introduces the use of DNA in forensics and the ethical questions involved.
Ages: 16-19;
Glowing jellyfish, flickering fireflies, fun glow sticks; Emma Welsh introduces the beautiful and mysterious world of chemiluminescence.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Did you know that the electron and electricity are named after amber, the ‘gold’ of the Baltic Sea? Bernhard Sturm’s teaching unit based on this fossilised resin introduces not only conductivity but also many other characteristics of solid organic compounds.
Ages: 16-19;
Uracil is well known as one of the bases used in RNA, but why is it not used in DNA – or is it? Angéla Békési and Beáta G Vértessy investigate.
Ages: 16-19;
Physics teacher Keith Gibbs shares some of his many demonstrations and experiments for the physics classroom.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
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Van Gogh’s darkening legacy
Topics: Physics, Chemistry
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Investigating the causes of schizophrenia
Topics: Biology, Health
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Neutrinos: an introduction
Topics: Physics, General science, Astronomy / space, Earth science
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Building a space habitat in the classroom
Topics: Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Astronomy / space
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A planet from another galaxy
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
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The DNA detective game
Topics: Biology
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What is chemiluminescence?
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
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Amber: an introduction to organic chemistry
Topics: Physics, Chemistry
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Uracil in DNA: error or signal?
Topics: Biology
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The resourceful physics teacher
Topics: Physics
