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Biology
- You and your genes
- Genes and inheritance, testing and treating genetic diseases, cloning and stem cells
- Keeping healthy
- Disease and resistance, antibiotics and drug testing, heart disease
- Life on Earth
- The evolution of hormones and the nervous system, theory of evolution
Chemistry
- Air quality
- Chemicals in the air, measuring pollutants, chemical reactions, sources of air pollution, what happens to pollutants, air pollution data, improving air quality
- Material choices
- Using materials, measuring properties, useful chemicals from crude oil, molecular structure and properties, making life cycle assessments, using life cycle assessments
- Food matters
- Natural polymers, farming methods, comparing farming methods, food additives, sources of harmful chemicals, protecting the public, food risk and benefits, digestion and synthesis, diabetes, diabetes risk and benefit
Physics
- The Earth in the Universe
- The Earth and space, continental drift, stars and galaxies
- Radiation and life
- Benefits and risks, electromagnetic radiation, global warming
- Radioactive materials
- Nuclear radiation, safe handling of radioactive materials, generating electricity
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