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Catalyst Volume 20 Issue 1: Full Magazine
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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