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How are drones keeping track of songbirds?
Nature & Environment

How are drones keeping track of songbirds?

...research. In a new study from The Auk: Ornithological Advances, researchers from Gettysburg College test this technology for monitoring songbird populations. Although the method currently has some pitfalls, it has the potential to become an important scientific tool. Surveying bird populations is crucial for environmental management, but it is inherently challenging. Some...
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Soil could save Earth from overheating
Nature & Environment

Soil could save Earth from overheating

...research shows that changing the way we farm and manage soils so they store carbon rather than lose it would help avoid dangerous climate change...[Man holds a handful of soil in a field with a spade behind him. ] Climate scientists anxious to find ways to limit atmospheric greenhouse gases have started to look at the ground beneath their feet. They calculate that...
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Why the Applying Psychology to Work hub was created
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why the Applying Psychology to Work hub was created

...research In August 2020, a team of Open University Applied Psychologists and the authors of this hub carried out a study looking at the psychological impact of these changes on business and organisations, and their perceived expectations and preparedness for the next 2 years. We developed a survey to assess businesses capability in areas that have strong psychological...
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What does climate change mean for Pakistan?
Nature & Environment

What does climate change mean for Pakistan?

...researchers as the country has struggled to come to grips with soaring temperatures in recent weeks. A team of international researchers, who say their study is the first to show the country’s heat-wave trajectory forecasts a 75 per cent increase in heat waves by 2030, a 189 per cent by 2060 and a 277 per cent increase by 2090. “This means the country will experience...
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Citizen science and the data avalanche
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and the data avalanche

...research teams, and many of these teams are using both AI and citizen science to make new discoveries in their giant data sets. For example, ASTERICS was an EU-funded consortium dedicated to joining together some of the world's biggest forthcoming astronomy and astroparticle physics facilities, so that they can operate jointly in the future for combined "multi-messenger"...
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‘Literary Caregiving’: The War Library and Endell Street Military Hospital Library
History & The Arts

‘Literary Caregiving’: The War Library and Endell Street Military Hospital Library

...research into the War Library and the library at Endell Street Military Hospital. ...Since 2015, I’ve been working on the story of Helen Mary Gaskell’s War Library. This prime example of what I call ‘literary caregiving’ was begun in London as soon as war was declared in order to help wounded soldiers. Gaskell’s vision was of a library stocked with donated...
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Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action

...research team from The Open University set out to explore how people make sense of and use this document in their practice. ...Supported by over 30 organisations, the Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care framework was first released in 2015 and relaunched in 2021 for another five years. It outlines six ambitions, illustrated in the image, to improve the care of...
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The psychology of conspiracy theories
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of conspiracy theories

...research has been conducted on this topic. In fact, it is only since the 1990s that social psychologists have turned their attention to the conspiracy theory phenomenon and scrutinised its psychological roots in a systematic way. Investigating the conspiracy theorist Much psychology research has focused on identifying factors which predispose certain individuals to...
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