All Natural resources articles
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Alternatives to agrochemicals
Find out how developments in pest control will secure future food production
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Pesticides and agricultural productivity calculations | 14–16 years
Link food security to yield, percentage yield and atom economy
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Hard water challenge | Chemistry for All project | 14–16 years
Investigate the relationship between the concentration of calcium ions and the ‘hardness’ of water
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Science turns the taps on in drought-hit areas
Changes in the state of matter offer a solution to making potable water in arid regions
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Job profile
Senior science manager
Paul’s circular approach to manufacturing sugar means there is virtually zero waste and other useful products like bioethanol
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Teaching the rock cycle
Cement your younger students’ understanding of how rocks are formed with this poster and game
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Moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy
Recent steep price increases could push us towards renewable energy
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The politics of energy – structure strip | 14–16 years
Develop your learners reading comprehension and writing skills while revisiting topics from organic and atmospheric chemistry
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Compact reverse osmosis to make potable water
Meet the students who have desiged a cheap and portable desalinating water bottle
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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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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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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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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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Ocean acidification
How scientists are fighting the serious risk atmospheric carbon dioxide poses to our seas – and the planet
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A virtual check for CO₂ capture tech
Finding carbon recovery materials using software and not lab tests
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Turning scrap metal into hi-tech alloys
Electrochemically stripping carbon from steel during recycling
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Cooling homes with an endothermic reaction
Looking at the use of ammonium nitrate in a new and renewable cooling process
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Job profile
Bioleaching lab technician
Emma collects and processes precious metals that are extracted from electronic waste products