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The Large Hadron Collider
Science, Maths & Technology

The Large Hadron Collider

...energy collisions will reveal. The audio tracks feature Dr Stephen Serjeant and Dr David Broadhurst from The Open University and Dr Dan Faircloth and Dr Bruce Kennedy from the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. They share their passion for this immense machine that will recreate, on a tiny scale, conditions that existed just after...
How do social networks play a key role in disaster recovery?
Society, Politics & Law

How do social networks play a key role in disaster recovery?

...energy policy in Japan by pushing local residents to pursue non-nuclear options. Many communities have started electricity cooperatives where they use geothermal, solar and wind to produce their power. What saved lives during the tsunami? A Japanese colleague and I hoped to learn why the mortality rate from the tsunami varied tremendously. In some cities along the coast,...
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...energy-saving light bulb itself. Examples of the latter might include solar panels – a radical way of generating domestic electricity, but currently only having incremental impacts because of costs, energy pricing policies and time lag of adoption in the UK. The different categories of innovation are often represented using ‘S’-curves...Organisations, environmental...
Magneform (electromagnetic assembly and forming)
Science, Maths & Technology

Magneform (electromagnetic assembly and forming)

...energy rate, cold forming technique that reshapes metals without physical contact. When an electric current generates pulsed opposing magnetic fields near the metal, a controllable pressure is created...Three main concepts [Images to demonstrate 'Magneform (electromagnetic assembly and forming)' - see article ] Bulging or expansion ring [Images to demonstrate 'Magneform...
Thermal spraying (Hardfacing)
Science, Maths & Technology

Thermal spraying (Hardfacing)

...energy into molten material (1/5 of the energy of plasma arc and 1/9 of the energy of flame processes). Although plasma arc has a high capital cost and high operating cost, and requires complicated support services, it is the most versatile of the thermal spray processes, giving excellent coating properties with almost any material. The high operating temperatures...
Clean Brexit, Dirty Brexit: Is this the last exit before armageddon?
Nature & Environment

Clean Brexit, Dirty Brexit: Is this the last exit before armageddon?

...energy, that sees green regulations as a barrier to business, and was trying to reach climate change targets in the most market-based… way possible. We are likely to get this more so now as the right of the party is stronger than it was.” A Dirty Brexit allows the British government to perform a bonfire of air pollution regulations, and a Conservative-led...
How Do Batteries Work?
Science, Maths & Technology

How Do Batteries Work?

...energy into electricity, heres an explainer on how a battery works...What is an electric current? Within every atom there’s a tiny, positively charged nucleus surrounded by a number of even smaller, negatively charged particles called electrons. The electrons each carry the same amount of negative charge. The charge on the nucleus is equal in size to the total charge of...
DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude
Society, Politics & Law

DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude

...solar declination] Solar declination - the seasonal consequence of the 'tilted' Earth's annual movement around the sun. Although complex tables (almanacs) are used to obtain correction factors for any day of the year, you can accurately estimate the appropriate numbers for yourself. For example, if calculating the value at the beginning of May, you would be half-way...