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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...
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Tackling juror trauma and stress
Society, Politics & Law

Tackling juror trauma and stress

...technological advances in 3D printing processes allow jurors to examine highly detailed physical replicas of human skeletal remains. This additional haptic processing of traumatic evidence provides a more personal, intimate, and potentially traumatic engagement with victims as jurors can directly touch victim injuries. Prior trauma amongst individual jurors may be raked...
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Is there life on Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

Is there life on Mars?

...technologies, but this does not mean that we do not have an arsenal of other techniques to try and find those pesky critters. The cascade of the chemical reactions of life is messy and leaves a series of footprints in the environment when it happens, what we call biosignatures – these can range from minerals, to organic molecules, or gases, just to mention a few. Gases...
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Climate change: the kale smoothie of TV
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: the kale smoothie of TV

...in design and technology. If I to report back again in five years time I hope that I will find that this tough but vital topic has also inspired some of the best innovations in television. This piece is based upon a report written by Joe on Climate Change and Television, published by the International Broadcasting Trust and funded by the JJ Charitable Foundation....
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Trust in the Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Trust in the Workplace

...technological change’s pace and scale mean a trend of changing relationships at work. This trend points to a future of increasingly automated, disaggregated forms of working (e.g., working as part of temporary teams that are geographically separate). In addition, the projected skills gaps mean that there will be an increasing need for employees to retrain throughout...
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Large language models - the chatty computer
Digital & Computing

Large language models - the chatty computer

...technologies can be considered entirely ‘safe’ for a wide audience. ChatGPT responds to prompts from users by using the relationships calculated during the training process to construct a linguistically accurate response. Whilst LLMs are sometimes said to use statistics to ‘predict the next word’ in their response; in actuality the process is much more complex...
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Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland
History & The Arts

Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland

...technology, but in what it enabled in terms of the circulation of ideas and information. My PhD project focused on print in Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and my book Print and Party Politics in Ireland, 1689-1714 was based on that work. 3. What is it about your specialist area that fascinates you? I was particularly drawn to printed...
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Revealing the surface of an asteroid using robotic telescopes
Science, Maths & Technology

Revealing the surface of an asteroid using robotic telescopes

...Technologies, and are able to track asteroids as they move across the sky each night. Since the publication of this article, the observatories have undergone a significant upgrade. For an up-to-date list of technical details, please visit our specifications page here. Using these telescopes, we study the properties and compositions of asteroid surfaces to characterise...
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