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The Gaia spacecraft is a European Space Agency mission to map one billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. This collection of resources allows students to analyse real data from the spacecraft. The collection is divided into 3 sections:
- Background information for teachers and students on the Gaia...
This Catalyst article investigates biomimetics and discovers how scientists are finding ways of copying ideas from nature to improve products. The article is from Catalyst: Secondary Science Review 2015, Volume 26, Issue...
Catalyst Magazine is a science journal for young people aged 14-19 and their educators. It brings STEM subjects to life with insights into cutting-edge scientific research and industry R&D exploring the practical applications of complex science in the world around us. Catalyst magazine is a digital only...
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This article considers the scientific likelihood of the sudden onset of an ice age.
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Mobile phones are everywhere; most people in the UK own one. But how do they work? This article looks at the science behind this popular piece of...
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Human beings depend on their eyes to provide them with information about their surroundings. This article examines the basic functioning of the eye and at what can...
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By the end of 2007, physicists working at Europe’s Large Hadron Collider hope to have received the first results from what is probably the...
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The CLEVER car has been designed to be a compact, energy-efficient car. Many of its design features are likely to appear in more conventional cars in...
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In the Pink: Colour from Carotenes
This article explains how pigments pass along a food chain through a process called bioamplification.
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Water Power: the Micro-Hydro Revolution
The article looks at a micro-hydroelectric power station on a river in Yorkshire.
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Plasma Prominences and Cosmic Rays
This article focuses on using remote telescopes and detecting cosmic rays.
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Zeolites are naturally occurring sponge-like materials which can be used as chemical sieves and catalysts.
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This article shows how analysing molecular residues in ancient objects helps to reveal how people and animals once lived.
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This article looks at how genetics has increased yields of rice, a staple food for billions of people.
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How the Leopard Gets Its Spots
This article looks at Turing mechanisms as a way of explaining how patterns such as spots and stripes develop as an animal grows.
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