As we rely on more technology, we have to mine the earth for useful elements found in rocks and minerals. Mining companies have to carefully balance how much profit they make, with how much they’ll impact the surrounding environment – it’s no easy task!
Take on the challenge and set up your own Cookie Mine – using the worksheet, paperclips, toothpicks and some chocolate chip cookies. Carefully balance your budget on the tools and site of your mine, with the cost of restoring the land to its natural state once you’ve finished. Work in a team or battle it out to see who can make the tastiest profit.
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Launchball challenges you to slide, bounce and spring a ball through 30 obstacle-filled levels. You can even create your own levels to play and share with friends.
Players will use observation, curiosity and creative problem-solving skills and explore the applications of different science principles.
Each of the cards in this Happy Families set represents an element of interest for given technology applications or metal class, including topical critical’, strategic, and green energy metals. These have been allocated ‘family’ groups based on uses and characteristics.
Family groups are colour coded, but the name for each group is also given down the left hand side of the cards in order to avoid confusion. Chemical symbol, atomic number, electron arrangement and atomic weight are provided for each element, along with information about its discovery, important uses, and the minerals in which it is most commonly found.
SoS RARE, a project supported by the Natural Environmental Research Council UK (NERC) SoS MinErals program, is a large interdisciplinary team carrying out research to better understand Rare Earth Element (REE) deposit types, and ensure REE are responsibly sourced. Research includes developing more efficient and environmentally-friendly ways to process REE deposits, and working on metrics to compare deposit characteristics.
Discover more about Rare Earth Elements as you play Rare Earth Deposists Top Trumps. Download and print the PDF files and see what you can find out. The Rare Earth Elements (REE) are found in lots of modern technologies, including computers, low energy lighting, energy storage devices, and large wind turbines, making their supply vital to our ever-growing technological society – as well as the development of a low carbon economy.
SoS RARE is a project carrying out research to better understand Rare Earth Element (REE) deposit types, and ensure REE are responsibly sourced. Research includes developing more efficient and environmentally-friendly ways to process REE deposits, and working on metrics to compare deposit characteristics. The SoS RARE project is supported by the Natural Environmental Research Council UK (NERC) SoS MinErals program.
How can artificial intelligence (AI) help doctors?
Artificial intelligence is speeding up the diagnosis of cancer and supporting doctors to make better, faster decisions that could save lives. AI can be much faster than humans at finding tiny differences in images. AI can be trained to look for differences in shape and pattern within similar images.
AI is trained by analysing hundreds of sample images. These images can be of anything, from objects that humans find it easy to recognize, to microscopic things, like cells. The AI looks for patterns in the pixels that it associates with each item. A percentage score represents how certain the AI is about the match.
Look through the images below and see if you can spot the odd one out.
Can you spot the pear among the apples?
Can you spot the salt-shaker among the pepper shakers?
Can you spot the snake among the vines?
Can you spot the petri dish that looks different to the rest?
These multiple-choice puzzles test how well you can analyse information presented in words, shapes and numbers. Each type of puzzle requires a different type of critical thinking. Your results might show that you are better or worse at one type, but you can improve your skills in all of them through practice.
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By playing this Multiple Object Tracking test, you are improving your proficiency in vital skills for innovation. Good critical thinking relies on attention to detail and the ability to filter out unnecessary information so you can concentrate on what is important.
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