Unfold Your World: using art to explore the story of life
Explore the form and function of ‘nature’s tiny sculptures’ – proteins – with an engaging art competition from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
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Plastic food packaging: simply awful, or is it more complicated?
Why is food sold in packaging? Do we really need it? And if so, what materials are best? These questions are more complex than they seem and the answers may surprise you.
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Beyond solids and liquids: the science of slime
Is it a solid? Is it a liquid? It’s slime! Make slime to explore viscoelasticity and then complete a material science design challenge.
Build a linear accelerator model
Build a linear accelerator to demonstrate spallation – the source of high-energy neutrons used by the new European Spallation Source being built in Sweden.
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Mars Express peers into Mars’ ‘Grand Canyon’
Recent images from ESA's Mars Express mission show two ruptures in the martian crust that form part of a mighty canyon…
Astronomy / space, News from the EIROs
Towards a better lithium-ion battery
Watching what happens to the electrodes in a lithium-ion battery with neutron…
Physics, Chemistry
‘Eggsperiments’ for Easter
This Easter, have some intriguing science fun with eggs. You’ll never look at them the same way…
Physics
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