Microwave experiments at school
Halina Stanley introduces a number of spectacular classroom experiments using microwaves.
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Halina Stanley introduces a number of spectacular classroom experiments using microwaves.
Leroy Hood talks to Marlene Rau, Anna-Lynn Wegener and Sonia Furtado about his long-standing commitment to innovative science teaching, and how he came to be known as the father of systems biology.
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.
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.
DNA, also known as the molecule of life, has fascinated scientists since its discovery over half a century ago.
Halina Stanley describes how two Israeli scientists investigated plasma balls and in the process found a potentially useful way to create nanoparticles.
Continuing our energy series, Menno van Dijk introduces us to the past, present and future of hydrocarbons – still the most common of all fuels.
In the second of two articles, Dudley Shallcross, Tim Harrison, Steve Henshaw and Linda Sellou offer chemistry and physics experiments to harness the Sun’s energy and measure carbon dioxide levels.
Lucy Patterson spoke to Greek science teacher Theodoros Pierratos, who recently won the chance to bring physics to life for his students in a truly extraordinary way with the help of the European Space Agency.
Ľudmila Onderová from PJ Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia, introduces us to the use of black boxes in the physics classroom.
Microwave experiments at school
New approaches to old systems: interview with Leroy Hood
The science of preserving art
Painting life green: GFP
Gene ABC website, By the Swiss National Science Foundation
Plasma balls: creating the 4th state of matter with microwaves
Hydrocarbons: a fossil but not (yet) extinct
Looking to the heavens: climate change experiments
A classroom in space
Physics: a black box?