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Succeed with maths: part 1 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
How are tiny air pollutants causing massive storms in the Amazon?
Nature & Environment

How are tiny air pollutants causing massive storms in the Amazon?

...source of pollution was Manaus, the largest city in the Amazon. The city’s two million inhabitants and 500,000 vehicles add to the pollution released by thermoelectric plants to produce a plume that moves into surrounding areas through wind patterns. The researchers used a ground station to measure the concentration of aerosols in the atmosphere and the air’s vertical...
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Physical vapour deposition (PVD)
Science, Maths & Technology

Physical vapour deposition (PVD)

...source almost surrounds the workpiece, enables coatings to be deposited in an almost non-directional manner. All processes operate under vacuum; ion plating and sputtering at 0.1–1.0 Pa and vacuum evaporation at 10-5–1.0 Pa. Coverage of workpiece is usually improved as the pressure is increased. Cycle times depend on unit type (batch, load-lock or continuous),...
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Half of climate safety level has gone - Climate News Network
Nature & Environment

Half of climate safety level has gone - Climate News Network

...source comes a warning not only that temperatures may soon start a marked rise, but that sea level may also accelerate far faster than most scientists think likely. “It is not difficult to imagine that conflicts arising from forced migrations and economic collapse might make the planet ungovernable” The prospect it holds out is at odds with most mainstream climate...
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Genomic “dark matter”: a key to understand cancer biology?
Science, Maths & Technology

Genomic “dark matter”: a key to understand cancer biology?

...described as well, downregulated in aggressive cancers with high metastatic potential. So can lncRNAs be a source of new discoveries in medicine? Can they help us to understand how our organism works? Are some of them really junk material for scientific research? We don`t know it completely yet but a new era of scientific challenges has started. More on genes and cancer...
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Recycling: Putting consumers to work
Society, Politics & Law

Recycling: Putting consumers to work

...source-separated material. Comingled, or mixed, recyclables, on the other hand, need to be sorted into separate fractions before they can be reprocessed. Materials Recovery Facilities (MRFs) sort mixed recyclables through technological and labour-intensive systems and local authorities have to pay to use them. Whether they benefit from the sale of the processed materials...
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Sara Kay Aloe
Education & Development

Sara Kay Aloe

...source of entertainment: ‘I just really enjoy learning new things, and it turns out that personal development can also be a hobby.’ Working in IT recruitment, the pandemic had a big impact and Sara was unfortunate enough to lose her job, ‘…but OpenLearn helped me get through those awful lockdowns by keeping me busy,’ she told us. She moved onto courses in...
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Impossible Peace 2: "The taigs are getting everything"
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: "The taigs are getting everything"

...source inside the Northern Ireland Office told me they had been warned of “cataclysmic consequences”, but was not sure if things would be as “apocalyptic” as they were being told. And, in a late conversation the night before the march, Chief Constable Hugh Orde posed the question: Do they really want to start World War 3? What followed on September 10th was a day...
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