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Linda Sellou, a French PhD student at Bristol University, UK, tells Sai Pathmanathan, a science education journalist, what she thought of her school science and what she’s up to now…
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Could spider silk be the answer to medical and military challenges? Giovanna Cicognani from the Institut Laue-Langevin and Montserrat Capellas from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France, investigate Christian Riekel and Tilo Seydel’s research into this remarkable material.
Ages: 16-19;
Take a CD and a cereal box, and what do you have? With a little help from Mark Tiele Westra, your very own spectrometer! Time to explore the delights of colour, hidden in the most prosaic of objects.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Teaching science in the classroom is all very well, but wouldn’t it be wonderful to let your students learn for themselves what it’s really like to work in a research laboratory? Sooike Stoops from the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Belgium, describes a project that does just…
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Is it acceptable to use human embryonic stem cells in research? What about live animals? Professor Nadia Rosenthal, head of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Monterotondo, Italy, talks to Russ Hodge about the ethics of her research.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
In this autobiographical book, Maurice Wilkins presents the chronological story of the discovery of DNA structure in 1953. As The Third Man of the Double Helix, Wilkins is well placed to describe the complex scientific background and people involved in the breakthrough that earned him and fellow…
Ages: 16-19;
Rhythms of Life is a successful attempt to present what is currently known about time cycles in living creatures. It is a book about biological clocks, that is, the biological mechanisms that enable all organisms from bacteria to worms, plants, birds and mammals, including humans, to ‘tell’ the…
Ages: 16-19;
The success of an academic discipline has a lot to do with the attractiveness of its founding ideas and discoveries. These in turn reach the next generation of practitioners through textbooks.
Ages: 16-19;
Alexandre Lewalle from King’s College, London, UK, pushes back the frontiers of our knowledge of motors – at the molecular level.
Ages: 16-19;
Henri Boffin and Douglas Pierce-Price from ESO, in Garching, Germany, investigate our celestial ancestry.
Ages: 16-19;
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You’re researching what? Toothpaste?
Topics: Profiles
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Silken, stretchy and stronger than steel!
Topics: Physics, Biology, Chemistry
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A fresh look at light: build your own spectrometer
Topics: Physics
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Scientists@work
Topics: Biology, General science
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Ethics in research
Topics: Biology
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The Third Man of the Double Helix, By Maurice Wilkins
Topics: Resources
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Rhythms of Life: The Biological Clocks That Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing, By Leon Kreitzman and Russell Foster
Topics: Resources
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Molecular Biology of the Cell* and Molecular Biology of the Cell: A Problems Approach, By Tim Hunt and John Wilson
Topics: Resources
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How do muscles produce work? Using optical tweezers to study molecular machines
Topics: Physics, Biology
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Fusion in the Universe: we are all stardust
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
