The junior team of the local football club has been promoted to the top division of the regional league after a good season. The sporting success is to be rewarded with new kits for the team. The chairman of the…

“Only three insect removers can convince”. This is the headline oft he spring edition of a well-known car magazine about an annoying problem for all car owners. But what about the actual impact on the insect world and thus on…

Our food supply is largely dependent on imports of agricultural products. The war in Ukraine, which is a major producer of wheat and oilseeds, and the resulting disruption of supply chains make us painfully aware of this. Now, some European…

Plastic bottles, made of polymers (polyethylene terephthalate, PET), are part of our daily lives, but, unfortunately, they often end up in our terrestrial environment. The plastic structures decay and over time transform into microplastic, which travels through and mixes with…

Now that it’s autumn time, it’s striking once again how much nature changes with the seasons – crazy, isn’t it? All of a sudden chestnuts or walnuts fall from the trees, which can be collected, the leaves change color, mushrooms…

Smell is one of the basic senses through which we perceive scents or odours caused by chemical substances in the inhaled air. Smell is related to the taste of food, it is used in aromatherapy, but it can also warn…

Magnificent avenues of horse chestnut trees have adorned the city parks for over a hundred years. Have you ever taken a closer look at the remarkable inflorescences and striking leaves? Was it also a pleasure for you in kindergarten to…

Microorganisms are part of our daily lives and they are present in our environment. They live anywhere, surrounding us, both in our body and/or the outside. Many of them do not have effects on our health, but some of them…

The best case and the worst case testing scenarios are extremely rare in a real setting. You could explore real case situations by means of a dynamic geometry simulation (see simulation link above). Let N be the number of inhabitans,…

Testing large quantities of blood samples to detect one or more positive sample(s) of a virus disease is expensive and time consuming. What if we decide to make pools of samples to optimise the process? How do we do it?…

Will eating chocolate make me gain weight? Use the knowledge that you already possess to attempt to answer this question. Be ready to discuss and present arguments for and against this statement. This is what Jane and Paul had to…

According to World Health Organization (WHO), more than seven million people die every year due to air pollution. Air pollutants arise from a wide variety of natural processes (e.g. forest fires, volcanoes, and bacteria) and human activities (use of motor…