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Discover the heaviest element detected in a molecule

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Scientists probe the outer limits of the periodic table and uncover properties of mysterious element nobelium

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How to build a culture of hard work in your classroom

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Why hard work matters more than data – and how to make it happen

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Capture learners’ attention with video feedback

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Record a video mark scheme for exams and watch your learners’ engagement with feedback soar

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Build better conceptual understanding

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How you can model constructing complex sentences to improve learners’ mental models

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Explore the nitrogen oxides: Avogadro’s law revisited

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Forming a cloud in a bottle

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Evaporation, entropy and the Marangoni effect

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Make water ‘disappear’ with a superabsorbent polymer

  • Explore the nitrogen oxides: Avogadro’s law revisited

  • Forming a cloud in a bottle

  • Boiling without heating

  • Evaporation, entropy and the Marangoni effect

  • Make water ‘disappear’ with a superabsorbent polymer

Evidence-based teaching

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Integrating scaffolding and metacognition into titrations

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Can a flipped-practical approach encourage thinking and self-reflection?

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Creative exercises to connect concepts in organic chemistry

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Learn how to use purposeful prompts to encourage students to make meaningful connections between newly learned and previously covered ideas

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How making mistakes in practicals impacts student engagement

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Understand how learners respond to and recover from different types of errors in the chemistry lab to improve student outcomes

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Online or face-to-face networking meetings: what do teachers prefer?

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Why using spreadsheets effectively will reduce your workload

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Why are fewer students entering GCSE chemistry?

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Teaching alcohols at 14–16

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Teach electrolysis at 14–16

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Teaching rates of reaction and collision theory at 14–16

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How to teach aromatic chemistry at post-16

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How to teach solubility at 14–16

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  • How to teach solubility at 14–16

News & analysis

Showing the position of the element Nobelium in the periodic table. It has an atomic number of 102 and sits on on the bottom line of the f-block between mendelevium and lawrencium

Discover the heaviest element detected in a molecule

Scientists probe the outer limits of the periodic table and uncover properties of mysterious element nobelium

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Ocean acidification could cause shark tooth corrosion

Scientists investigate the impact of carbon dioxide levels on blacktip reef shark teeth

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New underwater adhesive glues rubber duck to rock on the seashore

Use protein-inspired glues to teach polymers in context

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Scientists create liquid carbon on Earth for the first time

Researchers reveal breakthrough information about carbon’s most mysterious form using an ultra-powerful laser

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