Small molecules make scents
Angelika Börsch-Haubold demonstrates the olfactory delights of organic chemistry.
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Angelika Börsch-Haubold demonstrates the olfactory delights of organic chemistry.
In the first of two articles, climate researcher Rasmus Benestad from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute examines the evidence for climate change.
Halyna Yagenska tells Sai Pathmanathan about teaching in the Ukraine.
Tuberculosis isn’t something Europeans normally worry about. But the disease is re-emerging and is resistant to many of our drugs. Claire Ainsworth describes how Matthias Wilmanns and his team are trying to hold the disease back.
Steve Jones talks to Vienna Leigh about the startling re-emergence of creationism in Europe, how teachers can help, and why he will never argue with a creationist.
Next year, I hope to take a small group of students, aged 15-18, to Iquitos in Peru, where we will board a boat to take us up the Amazon to study the rainforest. So I was particularly interested to see that Iquitos is featured in the Introduction to Ecosystems series of slides on Ecology, a media…
Catching the influenza virus can be more than just a nuisance: these pathogens have caused the most deadly pandemic in recent history. Claire Ainsworth investigates how scientists are working to prevent it happening again.
Dominique Cornuéjols from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility introduces us to the world of crystallography. It’s not all shiny diamonds…
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.
Luis Peralta, professor at the University of Lisbon’s physics department, and Carmen Oliveira, physics and chemistry teacher at Casquilhos High School in Barreiro near Lisbon, describe the ‘Environmental radiation’ project, in which students become actively and enthusiastically involved in…
Small molecules make scents
What do we know about climate? The evidence for climate change
Teaching in the Ukraine: Halyna Yagenska
Fighting an old enemy: tuberculosis
Interview with Steve Jones: the threat of creationism
Ecology: media presentation CD-ROM, By Biozone
Outmanoeuvering influenza’s tricks
Biological crystals: at the interface between physics, chemistry and biology
The science of preserving art
Radioactivity in the classroom