Animations boost learning
And reduce cognitive load
Poly(ionic liquid)s act like taste buds for simple sugars
New system could find use in food monitoring or disease detection
Metacognitive motivation
How it can positively influence students’ beliefs in their own abilities
Carbon nanotubes grown using kitchen chemicals
Cheap compounds found in kitchen cupboards can act as catalysts for making carbon nanotubes
Dirty stirrer bars can act as phantom catalysts
Contaminated stirrer bars could be ruining experiments that are sensitive to tiny amounts of metal catalysts
Water found in asteroid dust
Water detected in samples from an asteroid’s surface for the first time