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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;
When next teaching photosynthesis, try these simple experiments with variegated plants.
Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
In this experiment, simple liquids that mimic blood are used to demonstrate blood typing.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Discovering how infectious diseases spread may seem purely a matter for medical science – but taking a close look at the numbers can also tell us a great deal.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16;
The basic chemistry of hair dyes has changed little over the past century, but what do we know about the risks of colouring our hair, and why do we do it?
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
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Learning from laughter
Topics: Biology, Health
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The mathematician who became a biologist
Topics: Profiles
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An almost fearless brain
Topics: Biology, Health, Science and society
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Structural colour: peacocks, Romans and Robert Hooke
Topics: Physics
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Infectious cancers: the DNA story
Topics: Biology, Health
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Tara: an ocean odyssey
Topics: Biology
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Do leaves need chlorophyll for growth?
Topics: Biology
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Investigating blood types
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Health
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Ebola in numbers: using mathematics to tackle epidemics
Topics: Mathematics, Biology, Health
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Colour to dye for
Topics: Chemistry, Science and society
