All Resources articles – Page 6
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Conserving the periodic table
How paper conservators preserved the one of the world’s oldest periodic tables
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Ideas
Working with units and prefixes
How to help students use units and prefixes correctly and easily convert between them
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News
Carbon nanotubes grown using kitchen chemicals
Cheap compounds found in kitchen cupboards can act as catalysts for making carbon nanotubes
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When experiments don't go to plan
From Bakelite to Super glue, how unintended results can be useful
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Self-defence classes for our immune system
Andy Extance finds out how vaccines help people fight off germs without getting ill
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News
Dirty stirrer bars can act as phantom catalysts
Contaminated stirrer bars could be ruining experiments that are sensitive to tiny amounts of metal catalysts
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Feature
Reef-safe sunscreens
Nina Notman investigates the science behind UV-absorbing sunscreens and ‘reef-friendly’ formulations
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News
Water found in asteroid dust
Water detected in samples from an asteroid’s surface for the first time
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Recycling plastic bottles into jet fuel
Teach your students how plastic waste is being converted into hydrocarbon fuels
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Develop deeper understanding with models
How to bridge the gap between the ‘seen’ science and the ‘unseen’ explanation