News & analysis – Page 8
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Healthy mice start to smell like sick ones
Sniffer mice and chemical analysis suggest that sickness odours are contagious
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The problems with predicted grades
Why support for overhauling admissions systems is mounting
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Declining university chemistry applications
There are fewer undergraduates studying chemistry. Should we be concerned?
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Seven simple rules offered to bolster science education
Practical guidance to make evidence-based teaching accessible
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The science of sweeter sugars
The sweetest saccharides form the strongest and shortest hydrogen bonds
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Pay blamed for specialist teacher shortages
Staffing gap between deprived and more affluent areas grows
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Synthetic retina is looking good
New molybdenum disulfide and graphene implant curves with retina – with lesson starter slides
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Some students will achieve an impossible grade this Thursday
Ofqual revises minimum science grade
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Dynamic surfaces can be switched by magnetic fields
Magnetic fields can alter surface friction and stickiness
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Mineral filters cut carcinogens in smoked foods
Cutting edge science research with a consumer application
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Hundreds of helium compounds could be hiding in Earth’s mantle
Use this cutting edge research into helium compounds in class
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Students don’t have to stick to lab projects during chemistry degrees
They can gain valuable employment skills in other ways
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‘I do tend to say yes ... ’
We ask John Holman how writing a textbook snowballed into invites to work on the national curriculum, a national education research centre, and more
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The RSC President’s Award 2018
What makes this team of six teachers and one technician so inspirational?
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More students report doing regular practical work
Contrasting some earlier fears, schools have not deprioritized practical since A-level reform
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Rewards for contributions to chemical education
Find out who has been awarded the 2018 RSC education prizes
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Targeting manganese fights the flu
A tweak allows a promising flu-fighting compound to latch onto both of the manganese atoms at the heart of a flu enzyme