All RSC Education articles in September 2010
-
The MoleA day in the life of STEM ambassadors coordinator: Clare Herd
Clare Herd has spent the last 3 months working as the local STEM ambassadors coordinator at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum. She talks to Laura Howes about her typical day
-
-
NewsScience on the Southbank
Royal Society (RS) took over London's Southbank to celebrate its 350th anniversary
-
SoundbiteSandalwood
Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives
-
FeatureSingle molecule sequencing
The first draft sequence of the human genome, announced 10 years ago, was time-consuming and expensive
-
NewsMaterials summer school
At the beginning of July, 25 chemistry teachers attended the RSC's The science of materials summer school in London
-
-
FeatureIron ocean seeding
Carbon sequestration - the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere - is an active area of research
-
NewsThe initial spark
Adam Maltese from Indiana University and Robert Tai from Virginia University interviewed 116 scientists from across the US to find out what made them take up a career in science
-
FeatureThe medicinal history of phosphorus
In the early Middle Ages 'physicians' treated most illnesses ineffectually, with herbs and plant extracts
-
NewsUK Olympiad team go for gold
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, hosted the finals of the 42nd International Chemistry Olympiad competition
-
NewsI'm a scientist: get me out of here! launched
Pupils from over 160 schools around the UK talked online to real scientists as part of the latest I'm a scientist, get me out of here (IAS)
-
FeatureThe importance of weak forces
London dispersion forces - instantaneous dipole-induced dipole attractions - are extremely short ranged
-
NewsTeacher Fellows
The RSC Teacher Fellows have now completed their secondments funded by AstraZeneca, what have they been getting up to?
-
NewsExplosive video
The winners of Planet SciCast were announced at an awards ceremony at the Royal Institution in London hosted by BBC The One Show's technology reporter
-
FeatureLead in the environment
Interest in lead pollution has tended to focus on the environmental consequences of the use of tetraethyl lead in petrol and of lead compounds in paint
-
NewsDraft science GCSEs 'plummet new depths'
Ofqual finds that 2009 and 2010 science GCSE papers were not sufficiently challenging and rejects draft papers
-
NewsJoint RSC and IoP report on funding of UK university departments
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the Institute of Physics (IoP) published a joint study on the financial situation of chemistry and physics departments at UK universities
-
NewsParliamentary links day
Over 200 delegates attendedthe RSC's Parliamentary Links Day in the Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, London
-
NewsCooperative learning
A group of researchers have studied the effects of cooperative learning on science attainment