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Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?
Nature & Environment

Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?

...changes can have a big impact on the amount of plastic we use on a day-to-day basis and how much gets into the environment. 1. Reduce your own plastic use. In the UK we use over 35 million plastic bottles every day, but if you carry a reusable bottle or cup with you we can reduce this number. Say no to single-use plastic plastic straws, cutlery and shopping bags will also...
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How to celebrate Halloween with young children
Education & Development

How to celebrate Halloween with young children

...change in routine. Light up or noisy decorations can be turned off and still look appealing! Create a ‘quiet zone’ in your classroom or home in case children need to relax during this busy time. When it comes to treats, be extremely mindful of food allergies; simple spooky foods can be created such as ghost bananas (simply put raisin eyes on half a banana!) using...
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Big data and bioinformatics: Powerful tools for decoding DNA
Science, Maths & Technology

Big data and bioinformatics: Powerful tools for decoding DNA

...changed during a person’s lifetime. These variants can span small regions of DNA and can be from just one DNA base to much larger regions, hundreds of bases. Certain sequences are more common in certain populations, which sometimes gives us information about increased risks of particular diseases within that population. For example in Caucasian (White) populations there...
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Should animals have legal standing?
Society, Politics & Law

Should animals have legal standing?

...change? ...What is a ‘person’ in law? The concept of a legal ‘person’ goes back to ancient Roman law. Only entities recognised by the law as a ‘person’ are considered legal actors. In other words, only a ‘person’ can sue or be sued, enter into contracts or own property. All living human beings are recognised by the law as persons, although personhood only...
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Infographic: 12 things to know about Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Science, Maths & Technology

Infographic: 12 things to know about Einstein's Theory of Relativity

...change depending on the relative motion of the source and the observer. As a result of these principles, Einstein deduced that there is no fixed frame of reference in the universe. Everything is moving relative to everything else, hence Einstein’s theory of relativity. It is known as special relativity because it applies only to special cases: frames of reference in...
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A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians
Society, Politics & Law

A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians

...changed the nature of healthcare for older people in part responding to their dire medical neglect within the NHS hospital system and in part to government and management pressure to improve bed occupancy figures. Geriatric medicine began to offer a career trajectory and eventually became what it is today, the second largest specialty with about 1,514 specialists. The...
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Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University
Digital & Computing

Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University

...change. [Female college student studying in the library] The numbers tell a clear story. Across both academic years we studied (2019/20 and 2020/21), ethnic minority students had consistently lower pass and completion rates than their white peers. For example, in the module TM111, the pass rate for ethnic minority students was over 9 percentage points lower than for...
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Building belonging and mattering to achieve equity for Black STEM students
Education & Development

Building belonging and mattering to achieve equity for Black STEM students

...and McPherson, E. (2025) ‘Black student experience on an introductory STEM module: Closing the awarding gap by listening to our Black students’. In: The 13th eSTEeM Annual Conference Proceedings: Sharing Best Practice - Implementing What Works (edited by Pawley, S. and Chang, D.), 10-11 April 2024, The Open University, UK. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.ro.00102266...
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