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As I find games to do with science I will put them here.
Revision for a number of topics !
Use the Gravity of planets to catapult penguins into their space craft.
Three games based around the Periodic Table; made by the Royal Society of Chemists.
Produced by the Royal Society of Chemists this puts you in charge of finding Oil around the world.
A little game about inheritance and adaptation
Nice little game about of course the discovery of penicillin
Has it ever occured to you that as you listen to a CD you are using the discovery of a Nobel Prize Winner?
We have been taught that plastics, unlike metals, do not conduct electricity. Plastic is used as insulation around the copper wires in ordinary electrical cables. Yet, the Prize Winners of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Alan Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa, were rewarded for their revolutionary discovery that plastic can, after certain modifications, be made electrically conductive.
We need several thousands of different proteins in our body. It is the genetic material, the DNA, in our cells that provides the information needed to produce all these proteins. The genetic information is stored in molecules represented by three-letter words called codons. These words need to be translated to the "protein language" of 20 words, each representing an amino acid.
The Immune system – Defending our bodies
Ilya Mechnikov, one of the pioneers of immune system research, inserted a thorn into a larva and noticed strange cells gathering around the thorn. The cells were eating any foreign substances entering the ruptured skin. He called these cells phagocytes meaning "devouring cells." He later shared the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with another pioneer in the same field, Paul Ehrlich.
The compartments of the cell, the organelles, are so small that it was impossible to study their structure until the electron microscope became available in 1938. Albert Claude, Christian de Duve and George E. Palade were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 for developing methods making it possible to take a closer look at the organelles and for discovering some of them.
