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Professor Jim Al-khalili, Physicist, says why ‘at the moment’ (based on current evidence) he thinks the Big Bang theory is correct.
Starting with Yr7 students demonstrating a coke fountain, this video explains that science is all about observations. The scientific concepts of experiment, theory and hypothesis are introduced.
Biologists Dr Denis Alexander and Professor John Bryant talk about how science helps us to find out about …
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Year 8 pupils at Maiden Erlegh School in Reading invite Galileo into their classroom.
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Read MoreOur common everyday view of time is actually an out of date one.
It goes back to Isaac Newton, who believed that time was something independent that we have no control over. That time goes by at a constant rate (someone once said: at a rate of one second every second – stupid thing to …
Read MoreMr Charles Darwin takes some entertaining phone calls
Suppose Darwin had had access to a phone. Who would he have phoned and what would he have said? Who would have phoned him and what would they have said? Shelford School put their imaginations to work.
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Science is often looked at as the search for truths and religion is looked at as being the search for ideals, therefore making them very different topics. I do not look at it like this, however, as I think …
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In Mary Shelly’s novel Frankenstein, the doctor creates life from old body parts and an electric current from a lightning strike. We used to believe that this was impossible, but this might not still be the case, as putting an electric …
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In the Christian religion, vegetative life on earth started when God declared “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” This quote from the Bible is …
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