The Lycurgus Cup

Researchers and scientists are interested in the nanoscale, because when many materials get down to these tiny sizes, they start to behave differently and novel properties...

Visible light is the small part within the electromagnetic spectrum that human eyes are sensitive to and can detect.

In this activity, students use modelling clay to construct different shapes (sphere, cube, cylinder) and calculate surface area:volume ratios with the aim of trying to develop...