Science in School: Περιοδικό για τις Φυσικές Επιστήμες

Κυκλοφόρησε το 29ο τεύχος του πολύ ενδιαφέροντος περιοδικού Science in School στον σύνδεσμο:
http://www.scienceinschool.org/2014/issue29

Μπορούμε όλοι και όλες να συμμετάσχουμε και στη μετάφραση άρθρων του στα ελληνικά, όπως αυτά που βρίσκονται στον σύνδεσμο:
http://www.scienceinschool.org/greek

Τα περιεχόμενα του τεύχους αυτού είναι:

Editorial

• Welcome to the twenty-nineth issue of Science in School
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News from the EIROs

• Solving a sticky problem for cancer treatment and getting into the fusion energy game
  EIROforum, the publisher of Science in School, reports on the latest news from its eight European inter-governmental research organisations.
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Science and society

• Experiments in integrity – Fritz Haber and the ethics of chemistry
  One hundred years after the start of the First World War, chemical weapons are still in the news. We consider some of the ethical questions behind the war’s chemical legacy.
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Cutting-edge science

• Up, up and away: using aircraft for atmospheric monitoring
  When measuring the chemistry of the atmosphere, it helps to fly up in specially modified laboratories.
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• Super cold meets super hot
  To keep refuelling its reactor, the EFDA-JET facility fires frozen hydrogen pellets into 150 million°C plasma. But these pellets have an added benefit as well. 
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Teaching activities

• Light refraction in primary education: the solar bottle bulb
  More than 10 years ago, a very clever and inventive inhabitant from a favela discovered he could produce light without electricity. Now solar bulbs are spreading all over the world.
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• Simulating the effect of the solar wind
  The smooth operation of communications satellites can be influenced by solar weather. Mimic this effect on a smaller scale in the classroom with a simple demonstration. 
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• Using biological databases to teach evolution and biochemistry
  Online tools can be used to compare the sequences of proteins and understand how different organisms have evolved.
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• Become a water quality analyst
  Industrial activities and even geological changes can affect the quality of water, causing contamination that poses risks to human health and the environment. Learn how to become an independent analyst to ensure that we have good-quality water. 
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• How water travels up trees
  Why do giant redwoods grow so tall and then stop? It all has to do with how high water can travel up their branches. 
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Science topic

• More than meets the eye: how space telescopes see beyond the rainbow
  How do astronomers investigate the life cycle of stars? At the European Space Agency, it’s done using spacebased missions that observe the sky in ultraviolet, visible and infrared light – as this fourth article in a series about astronomy and the electromagnetic spectrum describes..
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Reviews

• Pieces of light
  By Charles Fernyhough
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• The inGenious code: school-industry collaboration
  By inGenious – a project supported by the European Commission FP7 Programme
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