Chemistry and light
Peter Douglas and Mike Garley investigate how chemistry and light interact in many aspects of our everyday life.
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Peter Douglas and Mike Garley investigate how chemistry and light interact in many aspects of our everyday life.
In celebration of the International Year of Biodiversity 2010, Matt Kaplan takes us on a whirlwind tour through the previous year’s most inspiring discoveries of biodiversity.
Lucy Patterson talks to Èlia Benito Gutierrez, from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, about how Èlia’s favourite animal, amphioxus, could be the key to understanding the evolution of vertebrates.
Can you imagine building a motor from latex gloves? Physics teachers Ludwig Eidenberger and Harald Gollner, and their students Florian Altendorfer and Christoph Eidenberger, show how, exploiting the reversible thermodynamic processes of thin layers of latex.
Sabine Hentze and Martina Muckenthaler tell Lucy Patterson about their work – detecting genetic diseases and counselling potentially affected patients.
Have you ever wondered what it is that scientists get so excited about? Ana de Barros from the Instituto de Medicina Molecular in Lisbon, Portugal, shares with us the excitement of researching the immune system.
Eleanor Hayes, Holger Maul and Nele Freerksen investigate why folic acid is an essential component of your students’ diet – now and for a future healthy family.
Malcolm Fridlund from the European Space Agency (ESA) describes the search for extra-solar planets and explains how they can help us to understand the origin of life on Earth.
French biology teacher Jean-Yves Guichot explains his project to link secondary-school students with molecular biology researchers.
We’ve all heard that an antioxidant-rich diet is healthy. Together with his students, Gianluca Farusi compared the antioxidant levels in a range of foods and drinks.
Chemistry and light
Biodiversity: a look back at 2009
Getting ahead in evolution
The latex motor
Getting a grip on genetic diseases
Winning an Oscar in immunology
Folic acid: why school students need to know about it
The CoRoT satellite: the search for Earth-like planets
The Bio Academy
Looking for antioxidant food