Marvin and Milo go to Africa
Imagine this… A school with no running water, where the labs have just basic apparatus, no gas, one power point each, and only sporadic electricity. This is the situation at the Kabale School, Bukoba, Tanzania, which faced David Morgan & Christine Forbes - a science teacher & a chemistry technician from The Thomas Hardye School, Dorchester - when challenged to teach a 3 [...]
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All Star Turn Out
Read all about the very successful ‘Night Under The Stars’ star-gazing event in Bristol on 28th October on the ‘Sounds of Science’ Blog here: http://sciencepodcasts.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/all-star-turn-out/
Morphogenesis: where physics meets art
Visitors to the Institute’s website and readers of IOP Journals will have noticed the colourful designs which feature online and on many journal covers. These images are created by Frederique Swist, Senior Graphic Designer at IOP Publishing, based on original physics research and journal diagrams. Now they are on show in Bristol as part of the View Art Gallery‘s [...]
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Fun with Physics at the Dorset Show
Neither grey skies nor the promise of a muddy field deterred the enthusiastic volunteers from the IOP’s South West branch as they joined with science teachers from the Thomas Hardye School to wow the crowds at the Dorset County Show on the 5th & 6th September 2009. Choose your experiment… The weekend-long agricultural show on the [...]
Physics in a Primary School