All Careers articles – Page 7
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Poster
Teaching the rock cycle
Cement your younger students’ understanding of how rocks are formed with this poster and game
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News
Transforming the catalytic potential of metals
Designer catalysts are breaking the known rules of reactions
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Article
Why does jelly wobble?
Find out how gelatin’s bonds, structure and properties make jelly jiggle
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News
Lunar soil offers a promising catalyst
The Moon’s surface offers potential for ‘extraterrestrial photosynthesis’ to make oxygen, hydrogen and other fuels
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Feature
Moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy
Recent steep price increases could push us towards renewable energy
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News
Compact reverse osmosis to make potable water
Meet the students who have desiged a cheap and portable desalinating water bottle
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Feature
What are you swimming in?
Swimming pool disinfection is essential for public health but carries some risks of its own
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News
Electrostatic charge keeps solar cells gleaming
Look at the life cycle of solar panels suffering from a dusting of silica
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Feature
Phytomining: how to mine a tree
Useful metals can be extracted from contaminated soil using plants
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Resource
Phytomining | 14–16 years
Explore cutting edge industrial solutions to traditional mining with these differentiated resources which include an interactive cloze, sequencing activity and a storyboard template.
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News
War threatens semiconductor production
Link the conflict in Ukraine, the impact on neon production and conflict materials with this story and starter slide
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News
A stabilised sulfur allotrope that’s making sustainable Li–S batteries work
Energy-dense lithium–sulfur batteries are making their way into the energy industry
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News
Drug pollution in wastewater
Extent of pharmaceutical pollution on every continent on Earth revealed
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Resource
Scrutinising shampoo bottles | 11–14 years
Delve into the world of cosmetics labelling with this activity which takes a close look at the ingredients printed on the back of your shampoo bottles. What are they for and should we be concerned about any of them?
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Feature
Toiletries and cosmetics: what’s on the label?
What do all those terms on the ingredients list mean?
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Feature
Why the world urgently needs more chemists
At a pivotal time in history, this vocation could be a lifeline in solving pressing global challenges
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Feature
Ocean acidification
How scientists are fighting the serious risk atmospheric carbon dioxide poses to our seas – and the planet