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Setting crisps on fire, making spinach glow, and detonating hundreds of ping pong balls were just some of the experiments the children attending ¹û¶³´«Ã½â€™s Christmas lectures were treated to this year.

A ¹û¶³´«Ã½ academic is to be awarded for their outstanding contribution to UK cell biology. Andrew McAinsh, professor of cell biology at ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Medical School is to receive the British Society for Cell Biology’s (BSCB) prestigious Hooke Medal.

Tuberculosis, and other life-threatening microbial diseases, could be more effectively tackled with future drugs, thanks to new research into an old antibiotic by the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ and The Francis Crick Institute.

A rising research star from the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ has been awarded a prestigious Sir Henry Dale Fellowship.

The smallest microplastics present in our oceans – which go largely undetected and are potentially harmful – could be more effectively identified using an innovative and inexpensive new method, developed by researchers at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½.

Kids and grown-ups from 5 to 105 are invited to discover the science behind Christmas with FREE, fun family activities this weekend at Fargo Village in Coventry – hosted by the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ and the Royal Society of Chemistry.