Generating life on Mars
Creating oxygen to sustain life by growing plants under artificial conditions.
Balderstone Technology College has teamed up with the University of Manchester to give pupils a chance to undertake cutting edge research, supported by the Royal Society Partnership Grant Scheme.
Creating a colourful life
Pigments of the future, colour changing and environmentally friendly paints
Researchers from the University of Southampton and Loughborough University are developing new and colour changing pigments for a wide range of applications including security marking on banknotes and limiting overheating in greenhouses.
Matter matters!
Adventures with neutrons: an atom's-eye view of everyday materials
Scientists from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory are working with the world-leading ISIS Neutron Source to explore and understand the structure of materials.