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As Cassini reaches the end, we should prepare the next mission
Science, Maths & Technology

As Cassini reaches the end, we should prepare the next mission

...type in the solar system, or are they frozen ice and mud? Does Titan have a rocky core overlain directly by an icy mantle, or does it have an ocean below the surface? If so, is it made up of water? This all matters because what we have learnt about Titan from Cassini and Huygens has confirmed that it has an active chemistry, based on methane and ammonia. We know that...
Planetary Protection of Icy Worlds
Science, Maths & Technology

Planetary Protection of Icy Worlds

...type of mission (a flyby, orbiter, lander or sample return), and its scientific objectives. This results in a categorisation from I to V, where Category I missions have the lowest contamination risk. Icy worlds are included in all categories except Category I, which is assigned to missions to bodies that have no perceived relevance to chemical evolution or the origin of...
Think entertainment is violent today? The Victorians were much, much worse
Society, Politics & Law

Think entertainment is violent today? The Victorians were much, much worse

...type of violent drama found on the contemporary stage. Much more prominent was the murder melodrama. Theatre playbills, which were highly informative productions at this time, not only provided a textual description of the violent scenes in advertised plays, but from the 1840s, graphic illustrations as well. One of the most popular Victorian melodramas was the tale of...
Telephone bereavement support: does it work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Telephone bereavement support: does it work?

...types of support help us in different ways. [A photo of a yellow rotary telephone near a blue sofa.] The humble telephone Telephone help for all manner of emotional needs has been available for a long time. The first ever call answered by Samaritans was on the 2nd November 1953 and ChildLine was launched in 1986. Within bereavement support services and prior to the...
Investigating Links Between Pesticides and Mental Health
Science, Maths & Technology

Investigating Links Between Pesticides and Mental Health

...type of pesticide called Organophosphates? One OU PhD student explains their research... ...Organophosphates exist throughout our environment and consequently, we are all likely to come into contact with these compounds to some extent. Evidence suggests that long-term, low-level exposure to these compounds play a role in psychiatric disorders such as anxiety and...
Hands-free phone tech is dangerous - so why do car firms still promote it?
Digital & Computing

Hands-free phone tech is dangerous - so why do car firms still promote it?

...type of conversation a driver has, along with the difficulty of the driving situation, can further affect performance. Some researchers suggest that these effects are down to increased “cognitive workload”, the amount of information your brain can process at any one time. This makes sense, as we have a limited supply of attentional resources, which include all the...
The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love
Languages

The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love

...types of love with no English equivalent. He reckons there's at least fourteen flavours of love...[Peach shaped like a heart] No emotion, surely, is as cherished and sought after as love. Yet on occasions such as Valentine’s day, we can often be misled into thinking that it consists solely in the swooning, star-crossed romance of falling deeply “in love”. But on...
Scotland's gold trail
Nature & Environment

Scotland's gold trail

...The Open University’s geological virtual microscope Virtual microscope homepage: https://www.virtualmicroscope.org/ Search page: https://www.virtualmicroscope.org/explore where gold can be typed into the rock forming mineral box to bring up an example of native gold. Metalliferous ores: https://www.virtualmicroscope.org/content/metalliferous-ores...