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02 Dec Mirror Image Molecules: The Two Faces of Thalidomide

R-Thalidomide optical isomers stereoisomerism

I like December. I like the changing weather, and the cold and frost (weird, I know – I just like being able to wrap up warm and go outside!), and the anticipation of Christmas. I like excuses to stay inside curled up with the cats. ...

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  • In the classroom , Science in History , Things to make and do
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  • AQA GCSE Biology 1.2 , AQA GCSE Biology 2.2 , AQA GCSE Biology 3.1 , AQA GCSE Working Scientifically 1.1 , AQA GCSE Working Scientifically 1.3 , AQA GCSE Working Scientifically 1.4 , AQA GCSE Working Scientifically 1.5 , AQA GCSE Working Scientifically 1.6 , chirality , drug development , ethics , etymology , isomerism , optical isomerism , specificity , stereoisomerism , thalidomide

17 Nov The Fall of the Superbug?

e-coli superbug antibiotic resistance

Inspired by my trip to the Superbugs exhibition at London’s Science Museum, last week I wrote about the Rise of the Superbug and how they came to be. Obviously we want to do our best to prevent any more developing, but that still ...

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  • antibiotic resistance , antibiotics , AQA GCSE Biology 1.1 , AQA GCSE Biology 3.1 , AQA GCSE Biology 6.2 , AQA GCSE Biology 6.3 , AQA GCSE Working Scientifically 1.3 , AQA GCSE Working Scientifically 1.4 , AQA GCSE Working Scientifically 1.5 , bacteria , ethics , etymology , infections , mutations , proteins , research , superbugs , thinking outside the box , viruses

02 Nov Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November; Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot

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This weekend will see bonfires and fireworks across the country, remembering and celebrating the gunpowder plot (or rather, the foiling there of) in 1605. But what is the science of gunpowder, key to the original gunpowder plot and ...

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  • AQA GCSE Chemistry 10.4 , AQA GCSE Chemistry 3.1 , AQA GCSE Chemistry 5.1 , AQA GCSE Chemistry 6.1 , AQA GCSE Chemistry 7.1 , AQA GCSE Chemistry 8.1 , balancing equations , bonfire , carbohydrates , combustion , decomposition , equations , etymology , exothermic , explosions , fire , fire triangle , fuel , gunpowder , heating , history , oxygen , safety

18 Oct Why is the sky broken? (Or Hurricane Ophelia and her effects)

hurricane explained heating cooling evaporation condensation

Why is the sky broken? That is the question my cats spent much of Monday asking me. Why is the sky broken? What is wrong with it? The eldest of the cats sat as close as he could to the middle of our house and growled at it – and ...

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  • AQA GCSE Chemistry 2.2 , AQA GCSE Chemistry 9.2 , AQA GCSE Physics 3.1 , AQA GCSE Physics 3.3 , AQA GCSE Physics 5.5 , AQA GCSE Physics 6.2 , condensation , cooling , evaporation , heating , hurricanes , in the classroom , light , particle theory , pressure , sky , things to make and do , try this at home

10 Oct A picture speaks a thousand words: Protein imaging, and why it is important

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Last week, the Nobel Prizes for 2017 were announced. The Chemistry Prize went to three scientists for what Scientific American termed “Capturing Proteins in Action”. But why is this important? Especially for the Chemistry Prize? ...

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