Resources

Each book in this series provides all the necessary ingredients to start children designing and making their own exciting technology projects, based on simple "recipes" that use readily available, low-cost materials...

Read, build and discover! Explore the history and science behind the world's most impressive super structures, from pyramids to skyscrapers. Then create your very own impressive structures using the handy...

Super Sucker: Designing a Machine to Clean up Litter

This resource provides a design and technology project for older primary children. Linking to the topic of electricity, it provides a practical context in which children focus on electric circuits, motors and batteries to build their own mini-vacuum cleaner. The series of four lessons begins by introducing the...

One of a series of curriculum-oriented books covering a broad and varied range of subjects and written especially for reluctant readers.

This book of conceptual and logical games and puzzles is daringly conceived and brilliantly executed. The games and puzzles chosen - some traditional, some wholly...

Super-Skinny Material That Could Transform Electronics

This case study from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) archives looks at how sheets of carbon just a single atom thick could herald a new generation of electronics devices thanks to research supported by EPSRC.

Graphene is incredibly thin and flexible, yet it is also the...

Superbugs, bacterial infections and diseases that have become immune to current antibiotics, are becoming more common. What makes a superbug and why are they becoming more frequent? Is there anything we can do to protect ourselves from superbugs? This book answers these questions and more.

Supercapacitors

This short film from the Technology Enhancement Programme (TEP) is one of a series of clips which were produced to demonstrate the properties and use of a range of smart materials.

Supercapacitors can store much more electrical energy than conventional capacitors. In some cases they are used in place of...

This book means that you don't have to find your own personal coach - everything you need to know is here. Getting the job done is no longer good enough: relationships, whether with colleagues, customers, friends and...

Superconductors: Powering the Future, Probing the Past

A Catalyst article about the many uses of superconductors. The article looks at what the 1700 magnets at the Large Hadron Collider and power cables in Detroit have in common. Both use superconductors - materials which, when cooled below a certain temperature, lose all their electrical resistance, and display some...