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Airbus and Brexit: What do you need to know?
Money & Business

Airbus and Brexit: What do you need to know?

...technology. Wings are strategic – and France and Germany would want them as the move would bring jobs in high-value manufacturing. Airbus in Europe is often viewed as a “job factory” (as one former Airbus first-tier supplier CEO told me in an interview) – with the focus being on the creation of jobs. The long-running Boeing-Airbus lawsuit at the World Trade...
Apollo 11 and 50 years of research on Moon rocks
Science, Maths & Technology

Apollo 11 and 50 years of research on Moon rocks

...technology, has no conscience of its own.” When Apollo 11 successfully landed on the Moon on 20th July 1969 (20:17 GMT), history was made. Arguably this was the most important event for humankind and certainly one of the most important events of the 20th century. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, who spent 21.5 hours on the Moon, including 2.5 hours for an...
Le Corbusier
History & The Arts

Le Corbusier

...technological advances, and new ways of living, would change the world for good. Only architecture was failing to embrace the future, as new buildings continued to ape various historical styles. In 1908, Le Corbusier went to work with Auguste Perret, the French architect who had pioneered the use of reinforced concrete, and then Peter Behrens, the German exponent of...
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Why Rosetta is the greatest space mission of our lifetime
Science, Maths & Technology

Why Rosetta is the greatest space mission of our lifetime

...to land on the surface of a comet, is not a bad second best. This article was originally published on The Conversation on November 4, 2014. Natalie Starkey receives funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). Find out more about Rosetta Explore comets and other space rocks Try a free course or study a qualification with the Open University...
Plastic materials, pollution and recycling
Science, Maths & Technology

Plastic materials, pollution and recycling

...technology/science/chemistry/introduction-polymers/content-section-0 Smith, J. (2014) UNEP Year Book 2014 emerging issues update ‘Plastic Debris in the Ocean’, [Online].Available at http://www.unep.org/yearbook/2014/PDF/chapt8.pdf (Accessed 10 August 2016). Welden, N., How your pile of laundry fills the sea with plastic pollution, available at
The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Going Public
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Going Public

...technology listing “Chinext”, the so-called “Chinese Nasdaq”. Nevertheless, these bourgeoning stockmarkets face difficult growing pains. This includes stiff global competition and the finding the appropriate level of regulation. In the Chinese case, lack of transparency and charges of political bias in deciding who gets to go public have led many of its tech...
How are Snapchat filters allowing survivors of sexual assault tell their stories?
Digital & Computing

How are Snapchat filters allowing survivors of sexual assault tell their stories?

...technology as a tool to tell better stories. See the potential to hack anything. Right now I’m looking at Pokemon Go and saying, how can we tell news stories like this. Maybe we direct people with smartphone cameras to breaking news events like gamers are flocking to animated creatures. However, the legal implications of this innovative storytelling remain to be seen,...
The psychological impacts of climate change
Nature & Environment

The psychological impacts of climate change

...technological means and political consensus grows to make our societies more sustainable. What is needed now is collective, courageous action to drive things much further. What we can do It’s clear what must be done to achieve COP26’s lofty goals: stop extracting and burning fossil fuels right now, protect and restore forests and natural habitats, and give developing...