Article & Student Activity Please login to favourite this article. Australian research brings scientists closer to making blood stem cells in the lab BiologyCareers in STEMSTEM Australian blood stem cell research could help change the future of stem cell medicine. Two new pieces of research out... Years 8 & 10
Article & Student Activity Please login to favourite this article. Model or Monster? BiologyEngineeringSTEMTechnology In a two-room laboratory sequestered in a hunkered-down building in Werribee, Victoria, a small but mighty group of baby frogs,... Years 4-12
Article & Student Activity Please login to favourite this article. Spring cleaning cells take out the trash before they divide BiologySTEM Cells may use this strategy to clear out toxic by-products and give their offspring a clean slate. These resources can... Years 8 & 10-12
Student Activity & Video Please login to favourite this article. Genetic discovery may help scientists reverse hearing loss BiologyPhysicsSTEMTechnology Listen up: study in mouse model provides insight into the development of crucial sensory hair cells. This resource can be... Years 8-12
Article Please login to favourite this article. Medicine’s blind spot BiologySTEM The data we don’t collect on sex Use this resource to demonstrate the importance of sex equality and the need... Years 8
Article Please login to favourite this article. Promising progress for a cheap and accessible new COVID vaccine BiologyChemistrySTEM American researchers have used long-established technology to create a COVID vaccine that’s easy to make and store; clinical trials are... Years 8-10
Video, Article, SCINEMA & Student Activity Please login to favourite this article. Why is there asymmetry in nature? BiologyChemistryEarth SciencesSTEM From lefty snails to deadly chemicals, asymmetry in nature is more common than you think. Use the free student activity... Years 3, 5, 8 & 10
Article Please login to favourite this article. Mathematics of scale: big, small and everything in between MathematicsBiologyChemistryPhysicsSpace SciencesSTEM Fractals are a critical tool for measuring and understanding the mathematics of scale. This intriguing article works well with all... Years 8-10
STEM Pack & Article Please login to favourite this article. Message in a bottle BiologyCareers in STEMChemistrySTEM Messenger RNA technology, so long in the wings, has leapt from understudy to main act. Its deceptively simple technology has... Years 8-12
Article & Video Please login to favourite this article. Fish built with plastic and heart cells swims for three months BiologyChemistryEngineeringSTEMTechnology Bio-hybrid mechanism regrew muscles, paving way for bio-artificial hearts. A world of biological robots is just a heartbeat away. Artificial... Years 4-5 & 7-10
Student Activity & Video Please login to favourite this article. How cochlear implants work…and when they don’t BiologyPhysicsSTEMTechnology Today, February 25th is International Cochlear Implant Day. The celebration is all in memory of the first cochlear implant in... Years 8-9
Article & Student Activity Please login to favourite this article. How do cells know when they’re fully grown? BiologySTEM Scientists unlock the key to cell size regulation – and it’s all in the DNA. How do cells regulate their... Years 8 & 10