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Why do giant redwoods grow so tall and then stop? It all has to do with how high water can travel up their branches.
Ages: 16-19;
Industrial activities and even geological changes can affect the quality of water, causing contamination that poses risks to human health and the environment. Learn how to become an independent analyst to ensure that we have good-quality water.
Ages: 16-19;
Online tools can be used to compare the sequences of proteins and understand how different organisms have evolved.
Ages: 16-19;
More than 10 years ago, a very clever and inventive inhabitant from a favela discovered he could produce light without electricity. Now solar bulbs are spreading all over the world.
Ages: <11, 11-14;
The smooth operation of communications satellites can be influenced by solar weather. Mimic this effect on a smaller scale in the classroom with a simple demonstration.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
To keep refuelling its reactor, the EFDA-JET facility fires frozen hydrogen pellets into 150 million°C plasma. But these pellets have an added benefit as well.
Ages: 16-19;
When measuring the chemistry of the atmosphere, it helps to fly up in specially modified laboratories.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
One hundred years after the start of the First World War, chemical weapons are still in the news. We consider some of the ethical questions behind the war’s chemical legacy.
Ages: 16-19;
Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight of Europe’s largest inter-governmental scientific research organisations (EIROs). This article reviews some of the latest news from EIROs.
Ages: not applicable;
With the FIFA World Cup, football fever seems to be everywhere and it is amazing to think how much the game has changed since the first one in 1930.
Ages: not applicable;
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How water travels up trees
Topics: Biology
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Become a water quality analyst
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Engineering
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Using biological databases to teach evolution and biochemistry
Topics: Biology
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Light refraction in primary education: the solar bottle bulb
Topics: Physics, Engineering
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Simulating the effect of the solar wind
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space, Engineering
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Super cold meets super hot
Topics: Physics, Engineering
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Up, up and away: using aircraft for atmospheric monitoring
Topics: Chemistry, Earth science
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Experiments in integrity – Fritz Haber and the ethics of chemistry
Topics: Chemistry, Science and society
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Solving a sticky problem for cancer treatment and getting into the fusion energy game
Topics: News from the EIROs, Physics, Biology
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Welcome to the twenty-nineth issue of Science in School
Topics: Uncategorized
