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From Astrobiology to Parliament
Science, Maths & Technology

From Astrobiology to Parliament

...University's Science courses and qualifications. [Devyani, standing by the Jubilee Fountain in New Palace Yard, to the north-west of the Houses of Parliament. Big Ben behind.]Looking back, what were the highlights of your time working with POST? Honestly, it was one of the best times of my life! Highlights… going up to London every day, walking through Green Park and St...
How to find invisible black holes
Science, Maths & Technology

How to find invisible black holes

...University, explains how you can become a citizen scientist and start your search...Somewhere in space a black hole silently orbits a star. The star is bright enough that telescopes on Earth can view it easily, yet the black hole is invisible. Unlike many other black holes this one isn’t drawing in matter from its companion star; it’s what we call a dormant black...
What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?
Nature & Environment

What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?

...University’s Open Justice Centre19 has combined forces with the United Nations to do just that through supporting the global Education for Justice20 (E4J) project. E4J promotes efforts to improve anti-corruption education21 in universities throughout the world with the aim of supporting the next generation of professionals to better understand and tackle the corruption...
Is there life on Europa?
Science, Maths & Technology

Is there life on Europa?

...universal solvent’ because of the vast diversity and richness of substances it can dissolve, and most chemical reactions related to life’s metabolic processes are carried out in water. For this reason, much effort has been spent looking for traces of water on Mars with the hope that it would lead to signs of life (biosignatures). However, these efforts were mostly...
More than carbon sinks: Other ways forests can fight climate change
Nature & Environment

More than carbon sinks: Other ways forests can fight climate change

...University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), Rex Cruz, a watershed management expert. His explanation gave me an insight into how the minds of scientists work. “Scientists were working on the macro-system or global model at first because of the ‘symptoms’ that they saw—global warming, more violent storms, changing seasons. The answer to why these phenomena,...
How do we learn language?
Education & Development

How do we learn language?

...University's Education and Early Years courses and qualifications. Human nature [A group of children sitting on the floor looking up]Humans are not the strongest, fastest, or fiercest of creatures. And yet, put a group of us together and we have been able to inhabit every continent; develop science, law, art and medicine. The rise to our current position of influence is...
Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces
Health, Sports & Psychology

Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces

...University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. While feedback can inform service improvement, many sites do not have the processes in place to engage bereaved carers in how to improve such spaces. Claire Henry MBE, and Marie Cooper, both nurses with extensive experience and expertise in end-of-life care, and Roberta Lovick, national campaigner for the...
Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection
Education & Development

Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection

...universities to collaborate on a project that explored race and policing. The comparative project examined the legal frameworks in the UK and the US and traced the historical parallels and important differences between the legal developments in both countries. The project was launched in part as a response to the death of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police, which...