Biology & Medicine

Blood Pressure

Blood Pressure

Why do you feel dizzy if you stand up too quickly?

Themes: Biology & Medicine and Human Body

Topics: Biophysics, Fluids, and Pressure

Grades: 8-10

Bats and the Doppler Shift

Bats and the Doppler Shift

What compensation for Doppler shifts do bats perform to keep their echoes within their hearing range?

Themes: Animals, Biology & Medicine, and Waves

Topics: Biophysics and Sound

Grades: 11-12 and 8-10

Nerve Impulses

Nerve Impulses

Why are eye-foot and eye-hand reaction times different?

Themes: Biology & Medicine and Human Body

Topics: Biophysics

Grades: 11-12 and 8-10

Food as Energy

Food as Energy

Themes: Animals, Human Body, and Renewable and Clean Energy

Topics: Biophysics, Energy, and sustainability

Grades: 11-12 and 8-10

Radiation dose

Radiation dose

I heard milk is radioactive. Should I worry?

Themes: Energy and Environment, Human Body, Non-renewable and non-clean energy, and Renewable and Clean Energy

Topics: Energy and Nuclear Physics

Grades: 11-12

Energy Cost of Transport

Energy Cost of Transport

How much energy does it take to move a person or a tonne of freight from A to B?

Themes: Animals, Energy and Environment, Human Body, and Transportation

Topics: Electricity, Energy, and Forces

Grades: 11-12

Heat Balance in the Human Body

Heat Balance in the Human Body

How much energy does our body use? How do we keep cool when it is really hot out? Can we justify eating more when studying?

Themes: Biology & Medicine, Energy use at Home, and Human Body

Topics: Biophysics, Efficiency, and Energy

Grades: 11-12

Red Tailed Hawk

PRIVATE: Vision and Diffraction

Why can eagles see more clearly farther away than we can?

Themes: Animals, Biology & Medicine, and Optics and Radiation

Topics: Biophysics and Optics

Grades: 11-12

PRIVATE: Cheetah Chase

PRIVATE: Cheetah Chase

How far away can a cheetah be from a gazelle and still be guaranteed to catch it?

Themes: Animals and Biology & Medicine

Topics: Biophysics and Mechanics

Grades: 11-12