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A negative result from a medical test means you definitely don’t have the condition, right? Wrong: it depends on the false negative rate of the test and on your individual risk.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
How do scientists piece together genomic information from sequencing data? Play these two fun online puzzles to find out.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
A study of 200 million-year-old teeth from the earliest mammals provides fascinating insight into how they lived.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
How have scientists been working to tackle COVID-19 during the pandemic? This interview from European XFEL gives some interesting insight.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Beyond the five senses: Some bacteria can sense magnetic fields. Learn how they do this and how this could help us design nanorobots.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Fresh water is a scarce resource on our planet – but how many of us are aware of how much water is needed to make the foods we eat every day?
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
As scientists worldwide try to understand and help tackle the coronavirus pandemic, we take a brief look at what is currently known about this new virus.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Would your students prefer to grow edible crops or wrangle with statistics? Here’s a way to combine these activities in a real-world application of statistical analysis.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
As space missions venture to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn – and beyond – to look for the conditions for life, what alien life forms might be found in such exotic environments?
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Investigate the factors affecting plant growth and devise a plan for growing plants on the Moon.
Ages: <11, 11-14;
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How to understand a COVID-19 test result
Topics: Biology, Health, Science and society
| Issue 51
Microbial genome puzzles
Topics: Biology, Mathematics
| Issue 51
Ancient tiny teeth reveal first mammals lived more like reptiles
Topics: Biology
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Pulling together: a collaborative research approach to study COVID-19
Topics: Biology, Health, Science and society
| Issue 51
Insights into magnetic bacteria may guide research into medical nanorobots
Topics: Physics, Biology, Engineering
| Issue 50
Do you know your water footprint?
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Earth science, Health, Science and society
| Issue 50
Coronavirus: the science in brief
Topics: Biology, Health, Science and society
| Issue 50
Grow your own statistical data
Topics: Biology, Mathematics
| Issue 50
Alien life and where to find it
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Astronomy / space
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Astrofarmer: how to grow plants in space
Topics: Biology, Astronomy / space
