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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.
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Nature Needs You: Labs Without Walls
A Catalyst article about the Open-Air Laboratory (OPAL) project. Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) is an England-wide initiative that has received a grant from the Big Lottery Fund to bring scientists and local communities closer together. The project hopes to uncover new insights into the world by encouraging people to...
Make Your Own Indicator
This Catalyst article describes how an indicator changes colour when in solutions of different pH. Most indicators simply turn one colour in acid and another in alkali, although they are often an in-between colour when neutral. A universal indicator only turns as many colours as it does because it is a mixture of...
Drug Formulation
A Catalyst article describing how a medical drug is made into a form which works well in the body. Medicines rarely contain just one pure chemical substance. The vast majority are made of a complex mixture that contains an active ingredient (the compound that has the desired effect in the body) and compounds called...
Is There Anybody Out There?
A Catalyst article about the Kepler spacecraft, which is used to look for extra-solar planets. Scientists are hoping to shine light on the age old question of life’s existence elsewhere in the Universe using a new space-based telescope named Kepler. Launched on 6 March 2009, Kepler is searching the sky for small,...
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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 |
