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Apollo 11 and 50 years of research on Moon rocks
Science, Maths & Technology

Apollo 11 and 50 years of research on Moon rocks

...study the properties of the lunar soil, a solar wind composition experiment, a passive seismic experiment to detect lunar ‘moonquakes’, and a laser ranging retroreflector to very precisely measure the distance between the Earth and Moon. But perhaps their most important task was to collect samples of the lunar surface. Apollo 11 returned 22kg of lunar samples to...
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Other Moons
Science, Maths & Technology

Other Moons

...studied some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn well enough to establish that they are high-priority targets for future robotic missions. The moons of Uranus and Neptune have been barely glimpsed by just one passing spacecraft, but this was enough to show that they too have fascinating tales to tell. The only large moon with a rocky surface is Jupiter’s innermost large...
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The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education
Education & Development

The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education

...studies in the history of early childhood education, which eventually became known under the title: Effective Pre-school, Primary and Secondary Education (EPPSE). Together with colleagues at the London Institute of Education, the EPPSE team followed 3,000 children from the age of three to 16 – their entire compulsory schooling life. That team substantially extended the...
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Winchcombe Meteorite: Insights from the First Scientist on the Scene
Science, Maths & Technology

Winchcombe Meteorite: Insights from the First Scientist on the Scene

...study but The Open University scientists are already hard at work. Richard: “The analysis campaign at The Open University is now in full swing. In addition to oxygen isotope analysis, we will also be measuring the carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of these very important extraterrestrial samples. The arrival of the Winchcombe meteorite is a big bonus for UK...
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Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender

...studies, I’ve been focusing on non-binary communities. In the book we weave together feminist psychology and neuroscience, trans and queer scholarship, intersectional thinking, and gender-affirmative psychotherapy; we introduce these ideas simply and clearly, and develop activities to enable readers to apply them to their own lives. The key methods that we employ to do...
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Golden Globe Ocean Race: Monsoon and its role on regulating global climate in the past
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Monsoon and its role on regulating global climate in the past

...record of global warmth could help us understand how monsoon rainfall responded in the past with variable climatic conditions. A recent study has shown that the Indian Summer Monsoon acts as a gatekeeper for the movement of heat and moisture originating from the southern hemisphere during the abrupt climate transition. You can find out more in the article below....
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International Jazz Day
Miscellaneous

International Jazz Day

...studies with an uncritical bent towards advocacy often seek to deny the importance of the American roots of the music. Recognition of the American-ness of jazz is fundamental to understanding how the music operates in other places – whether it is emulated, rejected or reconfigured by musicians on that basis. Throughout history the roots of jazz have contributed to the...
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Methods in Motion: The middle children
Languages

Methods in Motion: The middle children

...study Child Language Brokering: Spaces of Belonging and Mediators of Cultural Knowledge (funded by the AHRC under the Translating Cultures Innovation Pathway). In conjunction with more traditional social science methods, it aimed to provide new understandings of how cultural knowledge and identity are mediated through child language brokering and to explore whether young...
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