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Seashells are more than just pretty objects: they also help scientists reconstruct past climates.
Ages: 14-16;
Try these hands-on activities to introduce your students to microplastics – a hazard for fish and other marine animals – and to our responsibilities to our environment.
Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16;
A citizen science project travelled over 7000 km to explore the microbial population in students’ mouths.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Understanding Earth’s climate system can teach us about other planets.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Neuroscientist and stand-up comic Sophie Scott explains the complexity and social importance of laughter.
Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Theodore Alexandrov is taking what he learned from working on the economy and applying it to the chemicals on our skin.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Wouldn’t it be great to live without fear? Or would it? Research is showing just how important fear can be.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
For thousands of years, nature has produced brilliant visual effects. What is the physical principle behind it and how can we use it?
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
What makes a cell turn cancerous – and how does a cancer become infectious? In the second of two articles on transmissible cancers, Elizabeth Murchison explains what the genetic details tell us.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
After four years travelling around the globe, the schooner Tara has returned with a world’s worth of scientific results.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
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Opening seashells to reveal climate secrets
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Earth science
| Issue 34
Microplastics: small but deadly
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Earth science, Science and society
| Issue 34
A safari in your mouth’s microbial jungle
Topics: Biology, Health
| Issue 34
Planetary energy budgets
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space, Earth science
| Issue 34
Learning from laughter
Topics: Biology, Health
| Issue 34
The mathematician who became a biologist
Topics: Profiles
| Issue 33
An almost fearless brain
Topics: Biology, Health, Science and society
| Issue 33
Structural colour: peacocks, Romans and Robert Hooke
Topics: Physics
| Issue 33
Infectious cancers: the DNA story
Topics: Biology, Health
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Tara: an ocean odyssey
Topics: Biology
