Advances in healthcare bring significant social and economic benefit. Increased life expectancy, improved quality of life; a more active population; a healthier workforce; less pressure on healthcare services and budgets these are some of the prizes that ultimately depend on research breakthroughs in medicine, health and the biological sciences that underpin them. Use this factsheet to teach your students more.

In this video, Dr Brian Cox explains how Ernest Rutherford conducted a historical experiment that revealed that most of the mass of an atom is concentrated in a tiny nucleus made of protons and neutrons.

Lasers are concentrated beams of electromagnetic radiation (light) travelling in a particular direction. Use this guide to teach your students more.

A cartoon booklet that introduces particle physics, particle accelerators and the Large Hadron Collider. This clear, concise and entertaining booklet explains what a particle accelerator such as the LHC is and the questions it is trying to answer such as ‘why is there matter and not anti-matter?’, ‘what is Dark Energy?’. It also looks at the people and technology behind the project. Ages 11 and above.

A full-colour A5 leaflet that opens out into an A2 double-sided wallchart describing the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. It describes the 'big questions' about our Universe that scientists are trying to answer - and how the amazing LHC will help them do so.

On the ground and in space, a global family of giant telescopes – present and future – is designed to gather visible and invisible light from across the Cosmos. Use this great poster and supporting document to teach your students more!

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built. Based at the European particle physics laboratory CERN, near Geneva in Switzerland, it is the world’s largest laboratory and is dedicated to the pursuit of fundamental science. Use this factsheet to teach your students more.

A full-colour leaflet describing what is next for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. It describes what the LHC is, what is still to come, what the UK has already gained thanks to the LHC, how it will inspire the next generation of scientists, and the engineering and technology successes.

A full-colour A5 leaflet that opens out into an A2 double-sided wallchart describing our Sun and its impact on Earth. A publication looking at the properties of the Sun and how current space missions and ground-based experiments are providing new understanding of our nearest star.

Earth and Space Curriculum Pack for 7-11 year olds. Meets key stage 2 requirements. Use these resources to teach your students all about space and the universe.

In this video, Dr Brian Cox explains that the Greeks knew about atoms and how Mendeleyev's periodic table was among the first clues that the atom had a deeper structure.

Synchrotron light sources are particle accelerators – machines that accelerate electrons close to the speed of light. Use this factsheet to teach your students more.

A spectacular full-colour A1 poster showing a view through the middle of the ATLAS detector and looking down the centre of the Large Hadron Collider tunnel. The LHC will recreate the conditions existing a billionth of a second after the beginning of the Big Bang.

A colour A5 leaflet that opens out into an A2 double-sided wallchart describing the largest space telescope ever to be launched. The Herschel mission will reveal how the first stars and galaxies formed. Ages 14 and up.

A colour A5 leaflet that opens out into an A2 double-sided wallchart describing the space mission to Mars, the experiments aboard, whether there is water on Mars, Britain's Beagle2 lander and the search for life on Mars. For ages 13 and up.

Neutrons are abundant throughout nature. Along with protons and electrons, they form the basic building blocks of the material world. Use this guide to teach your students more.

In this video, Dr Brian Cox explains how particle physicists have developed a theory that can explain almost everything in the universe in terms of just 12 particles.

The European Extremely large telescope (E-ELT) will be the largest optical and infrared telescope in the world, giving us a much more detailed and deeper view of the Universe from Earth than ever before. use this factsheet to teach your students more.

in this video, Dr Brian Cox explains how the string and weak nuclear forces were discovered.

Einstein's theory of general relativity, or gravity, predicted the existence of black holes and gravitational waves. Indirect evidence suggests that they both actually exist and scientists are now searching for them to prove that they exist. Use this factsheet to teach your students more.

One hundred years ago, two scientists in the UK pioneered a method for uncovering how the atoms in a crystal were arranged. The science of crystallography was born. Use this guide to teach your students more.