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The OpenScience Laboratory
An initiative of The Open University and The Wolfson Foundation
This online laboratory brings interactive practical science to students anywhere and anytime the internet is available. The laboratory features investigations based on on-screen instruments, remote access experiments and virtual scenarios using real data. Several activities are available to all, while others are available only to registered users.
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Popular experiments
Eating for energy
Subject Env BioAn investigation into why greater horseshoe bats are so rare in Britain today.
A-level: virtual microscope
Subject BioA collection of slides covering animal and plant tissues in the school curriculum.
Variation in vegetation: the heather hypothesis
Subject Env Bio EarthSample virtual transects to gather data on species of heather.
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Elementary flame test
Subject Chem PhysA simple demonstration of the characteristic colours produced by metallic salts in flames.
Flame test II
Subject ChemA simple demonstration of the characteristic colours produced by metallic salts in flames.
OpenSTEM Labs (GOLC)
Subject GenHistology & histopathology
Subject Bio HealthA collection of 320 annotated slides covering basic histology and histopathology.
A-Level Virtual microscopy
Subject Bio Env Gen HealthA collection of slides covering animal and plant tissues in the school curriculum.
Quantitative PCR analysis
Subject Bio ChemReal time PCR, human CYP2D6 gene variants, gene copy number, controls, population analysis.
Comparing ecosystem benefits with Treezilla
Subject Env BioInvestigation of environmental benefits of different types of tree.
Optical Microscope
Subject Gen Bio Earth EnvRemote access to microscope loaded with demonstration slides: rock thin-section, beetle, plant stem (x2) and fruit fly's wing.