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...University. JO JARVIS: During this first week of the course, we're hoping to guide you around the night sky and prove that you don't have to have a telescope to learn your way around. In fact, Alan, you started off with binoculars, didn't you? ALAN CAYLESS: That's right, yes. The important thing is to find your way around the night sky so that you know what you're looking...

...University in Egypt, says there have been several experiments around this technology in Europe and the United States. However, “until now, they did not render any results that can be made available or capitalised,” he adds. "There are challenges facing those experiments, the most important of which are the cost component of economic feasibility, and the method used to...

...University's Science courses and qualifications Rodinia - the first supercontinent Between one billion and 620 million years ago, the continental crust that would one day be known as Britain formed tiny parts of a giant supercontinent called Rodinia (approximately 500 million years before the formation of Pangaea, a later supercontinent). All of Britain was south of the...

...University Chemistry qualification. Video Text version Here are five of the six noble gases: helium, neon, argon, kypton and xeon. They're all colourless and transparent. Krypton and xeon form compounds only with difficulty. Helium, neon and argon don't form compounds at all. As we descend the group in the periodic table the atomic number and relative atomic mass...

...It’s been estimated that around 30 per cent of Sun-like stars may have Earth-like planets in their habitable zones. At the time of writing, astronomers don’t yet know of any Earth-sized, Earth-mass planets in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars, although it may be only a matter of time until some are found. Perhaps we do live in the Star Trek universe after all?...