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Catalyst Volume 24 Issue 1: Full Magazine
This issue of Catalyst contains the following articles:
How the Leopard Gets Its Spots
This article looks at Turing mechanisms as a way of explaining how patterns such as spots and stripes develop as an animal grows.
What is Science Communication?
This article explores where Science Communication came from, how it has grown and why it has an important role to play in helping people to learn about science.
Working in Science Communication
Six people whose work can be described as ‘communicating science’ reveal the great variety of career paths in this area.
In Antarctica, a balloon is launched to investigate the Earth's radiation belts.
Launching a Balloon to the Edge of Space
This article looks at a school project which involved launching a weather balloon high into the atmosphere carrying measuring instruments.
This article explores bacteria which produces magnetic particles which may be useful for future computer memory devices.
This article looks at orchids, their breeding, and why they have great commercial value.
This article explains how orchids have evolved over millions of years to have a close relationship with the insects which pollinate them.
Catalyst is a science magazine for students aged 14-19 years. Annual subscriptions to print copies of the magazine can be purchased from Mindsets.
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