Catalyst Volume 17 Issue 2

This issue of Catalyst includes the following articles:

Fruit Flies and Alzheimer's Disease

This article looks at some basic aspects of genetics and how fruit flies are being used in novel ways to study genetic diseases.

Science Communication - Careers

This article explores careers in science communication.

Investigating RTAs

After any road traffic accident (RTA), the police and other investigators try to establish what went wrong. This may be with a view to prosecuting a motorist, or simply in an effort to improve road safety. An understanding of the physics of motion plays a large part in such investigations.

Animal Testing

This article looks at using animals in scientific research.

Fantastic Fossils

This article looks at some extraordinary fossils of plants and animals preserved together in an ecosystem - it is even possible to see the cells of which they were made.

Fats, Oils and Soaps

This article investigates a few of the uses of naturally occurring oils. These oils are extracted from animal fats or plant seeds and can be turned into a variety of compounds including soaps, fuel and margarine.

Hurricanes

In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina caused many deaths - and vast damage - along the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico in the USA. Hurricanes are an unfamiliar phenomenon here in the UK. Why is this? And can people expect to see more hurricanes in future as a result of climate change?

Drosophila melanogaster

This article introduces Drosophila melanogaster a fruit fly used as a laboratory subject in genetics.

Buckytubes

This article looks at buckytubes, a type of carbon nanoparticle.

Catalyst is a science magazine for students aged 14-19 years. Annual subscriptions to print copies of the magazine can be purchased from Mindsets.