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# Long description

A grid of eight symbols, in two rows of four, each with some text represent Go-Lab’s big ideas of science. On the top row, starting on the left: three bending arrows point in a clockwise direction to form a triangle, as in the recycling symbol. The text below reads ‘Energy cannot be created or destroyed’. Next is a box divided in four, with a letter in each quarter: S, W, EM and G. The text below reads ‘There are four fundamental interactions/forces in nature’. A telescope is drawn in the third part of the grid, with the label ‘Earth is a very small part of the Universe’. A three-dimensional image of three interlocking rings with a solid circle in the middle is in the final box on the top row, representing an atom. ‘All matter in the Universe is made of very small particles’ is written below the symbol. In the second row, from left to right, the images are: firstly, a horizontal dotted line and a parallel solid wavy line, which represent the duality of particles and waves. The text below this reads ‘in very small scales our world is subjected to the laws of quantum mechanics’. Secondly, a line rises from the bottom of the box and slits in two, on the left hand side it branches again, on the end of the branches are symbols to represent a person and a fish (i.e. animals). On the single line on the right is a mushroom to represent plants. Below, the text reads ‘Evolution is the basis for the unity of life and the biodiversity of organisms’. In the penultimate box, a wavy line encircles a space with a large solid circle in the middle and six distributed, small solid ovals in the rest of the enclosed area. The text below reads ‘Cells are the fundamental unit of life’. Finally, a circle with the outline of North and South America represents the Earth and is labelled ‘Earth is a system of systems which influences and is influenced by life on the planet’.