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Covering the topics of DNA and and other Nucleic acids, this blog post provides great background reading and plenty of discussion questions for your A-level Biology class Read More

The Great War, or the 1st World War as it is more commonly called, was the first war that involved more than armies and navies slugging it out on land and sea. Between 1914 and 1918 most of the population of Europe was involved in some way.  Apart from them… Read More

Sixty years ago this March, one of the world’s most famous scientists, Alexander Fleming, died. Ten years earlier he was credited with discovering penicillin, the first antibiotic, which went on to save millions of lives around the world. Penicillin is a substance derived from a mould, a type of micro-organism. Read More