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...OU lecturer Dr Suresh Nesaratnam explains why the case studies were selected and gives an overview of the academic context in which water supply and treatment is studied. This material forms part of The Open University course T210 Environmental control and public health... Water supply and treatment in the UK An introduction to the contents of this album. Preserving water...

...OU and Roberta Kacowicz from The British Council in Brazil, discuss the various initiatives that they have been involved in all over the world to promote Darwin. Their work shows that he can still be both relevant and exciting, and that diverse methods can be used to introduce young people and a variety of modern communities to Darwin’s theories and the fundamentals of...

...students how to spot false reports. But more can be done — for example, the National Academy of Sciences should make part of their mandate a campaign against this type of misinformation. The case for media literacy and science education becomes urgent in the digital era, where 60 per cent of the population gets its information from social media. This is a challenge that...

...student, and Prof. Andrew Norton tell us about the different observations scientists made to find an invisible black hole...Astronomers famously snapped the first ever direct image of a black hole in 2019, thanks to material glowing in its presence. But many black holes are actually near impossible to detect. Now another team using the Hubble Space Telescope seems to have...