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Catalyst Volume 20 Issue 1
This issue of Catalyst includes the following articles:
Plasma Prominences and Cosmic Rays
This article focuses on using remote telescopes and detecting cosmic rays.
Ignaz Semmelweis: Saviour of Mothers
This article describes the discovery of puerperal fever which lead to a dramatic decrease in the number of deaths in childbirth.
Radar Refractivity: Using Science to Help Forecast Thunderstorms
The use of radar in weather forecasting is explained.
Publish or Perish: Getting into Print
This article looks at the structure of a scientific paper.
Nature Needs You: Labs Without Walls
The Open-Air Laboratory (OPAL) project is the main focus of this article.
The article investigates how a medical drug is made into a form which works well in the body.
This article focuses on making indicators from plant extracts.
The use of the Kepler spacecraft to look for extra-solar planets is the main focus of this article.
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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Plasma Prominences and Cosmic Rays
A Catalyst article about the use of remote telescopes and detecting cosmic rays. Giant telescopes that can be operated remotely are located in Hawaii and Australia and are known as the Faulkes telescopes.
These are available to students in the UK to do original research with, and enable the following...
Ignaz Semmelweis: Saviour of Mothers
A Catalyst article about the discovery of puerperal fever by Ignaz Semmelweis a doctor in a maternity ward in Vienna general hospital. The article looks at his observations into death rates and shows how scientists use observations and theories to make practical changes that can improve life. In the case of...
Radar Refractivity: Using Science to Help Forecast Thunderstorms
A Catalyst article explaining how weather forecasts can help keep the public safe in extreme situations by providing advance warnings: for example, airline pilots rely on accurate information about the development of thunderstorms to help them decide which routes might be at risk from lightning or violent...
Publish or Perish: Getting into Print
A Catalyst article explaining what happens when a scientist makes an exciting and new discovery. How do scientists manage to tell as many people as possible, and how can they be sure that someone else has not beaten them to it? Writing and publishing research in scientific journals is a long standing and popular...
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| Subject(s) | Science, Earth science, Physics, Working scientifically |
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| Age | 14-16, 16-19 |
| Published | 2000 - 2009 |
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| Direct URL | https://www.stem.org.uk/cx554 |
