Wet summers for England?

Is our climate changing? and what is causing this? This is a subject studied in Topic 5 and recent summers in the UK certainly seem wetter! could this be because of the Atlantic ocean warming?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19848112

Stem cells to treat infertility?

Could we use stem cell technology to help infertile couples? Some skin cells have become grandparents!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19827287

Reading list

Need ideas for extra reading? Here are the top ten popular science books. Don't forget that watching David Attenborough on iplayer is also highly recommended!


http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2012/10/top-10-most-influential-popular-science-books.html

Society of Biology "Biology Week 13-19th October"

There are lots of event in Cambridge for this. Check out

http://www.societyofbiology.org/newsandevents/events
(East Anglia branch)

or ask your teacher.

AS trip to Whipsnade!

The AS students went on a trip to the Zoo as part of Unit 3. Here is a photo of some working hard with a nice picture of Biologists favourite David Attenborough!

A2 trip to Wicken Fen!
For their Unit 5 Core practical The A2 students recently went to Wicken Fen (link available at bottom left of this page). Here is a photo of some of our A2 students doing some pond dipping.

Do you like eating fish? Climate change might be changing the size of your meals!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19758440

The human effects on our environment are obvious and now shocking evdience is coming from the Great Barrier Reef in Australia (ask Janet or Sue about this area of the world!)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19800253

What do you think about GM food?

We could use GM technology (covered in Topic 8) to produce allergy safe food as well as pesticide resistant crops. What do you think?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19785006

In Topic 8 we study depression and one of the theories behind its neuroscience and treatments. this is a very prevalent condition with 1 in 10 workers taking time off for depression in seven European countries

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19759964