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Catalyst Volume 26 Issue 3: full magazine
This issue of Catalyst contains the following articles:
Can we save our horse chestnut trees?
This article investigates the reasons behind extensive early browning of the horse chestnut trees.
This article describes the processes behind discovering and proving the existence of new chemical elements.
This article looks at research suggesting that the social world influences the activity of human genes, in turn affecting brain function. Neuroscientists are now beginning to explore how the brain might be linked to certain criminal behaviours.
This article explores the technology that allows scientists to take pictures at speeds up to 300 million pictures per second, and how this technology is used by scientists and engineers.
The article describes the construction of the British Airways i360 tower in Brighton. It is the world’s tallest moving observation tower whose capsule is based on an ‘oblate ellipsoid’ and is ten times bigger than a single London Eye capsule and is 18 metres in diameter.
This article looks at the career and interests of Dr Gareth Fraser who has been interested in marine biology since he was a child. Dr Fraser describes how this interest is leading to surprising possibilities in the field of human dentistry.
From small seeds to big yields
The article looks at the process of domestication which led to a natural increase in traits such as grain size (increasing calories available), grain accessibility, an increased number of grains and the loss of a hard protective coating.
This article presents six different images of Mercury, the planet nearest the Sun. Mercury has been visited by two probes. The most recent, Messenger, orbited the planet 4000 times in four years before crashing into its surface on 30 April 2015. Like the maps in an atlas of the Earth, the images in the article are coloured to highlight different aspects of Mercury’s surface.
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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