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Superplastic forming
Science, Maths & Technology

Superplastic forming

...technique needs careful design and control of production parameters. Re-entrant parts produced using split tooling and sliding surfaces, but with increase in die cost and cycle times. Pressures depend on material and component size and geometry: 350–1500 kPa is typical for aluminium alloys using special presses. Has been successfully combined with diffusion bonding with...
Your house is full of space dust – it reveals the solar system's story
Science, Maths & Technology

Your house is full of space dust – it reveals the solar system's story

...technique itself is simple. When at cruising altitude in the stratosphere the pilot opens up some pods below the wing containing “sticky pads”, which collect pieces of space dust. Back on Earth NASA use an exceptionally clean laboratory to pick the space dust from the collectors for researchers, like myself, to study. My research is based around these dust particles...
Heathrow third runway: who and where will benefit?
Society, Politics & Law

Heathrow third runway: who and where will benefit?

...techniques of analysis you would learn in the OU’s “Environmental Studies” courses. Airports are particularly interesting for geographers because they are an almost perfect example of how scale, distance and network are more complicated than you might initially think. And Heathrow is more complicated than most airports! Firstly, airports are about connections, and...
Sylvia Plath and the linguistics of depression
Languages

Sylvia Plath and the linguistics of depression

...techniques that, when applied to such accounts, bring to the fore how people describe what it feels like to be anxious or depressed, or to hear voices that others can’t hear. And the ways in which people express themselves can tell us as much about what they think and feel as the content of what they’re actually saying. As a case study, recently published as a book, I...
Influential women scientists in chemistry
Science, Maths & Technology

Influential women scientists in chemistry

...technique of implanting a small radioactive material into a tumour which is known as brachytherapy and is used to treat certain cancers. It is noteworthy that in 1935 their daughter Irène along with her husband Frédéric Joliot were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their synthesis of new radioactive elements. 2: Rosalind Franklin [Rosalind Franklin with...
Recovery at the Rugby World Cup
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery at the Rugby World Cup

...techniques, timings and dosages are optimal for recovery. It is likely that players in the Rugby World Cup will be engaging in a wide variety of recovery strategies during the tournament, including, but not limited those outlined in this article. While the scientific evidence to support these strategies is still relatively limited, they are widely adopted by players and...
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...techniques and devices have worked to create meaning. General readers may be entirely happy to find a poem pleasing, or unsatisfactory, without stopping to ask why. But studying poetry is a different matter and requires some background understanding of what those stylistic techniques might be, as well as an awareness of constraints and conventions within which poets have...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...techniques. So although Marineau agreed to try the maggots, she had no idea whether they would actually work for James. She also had no idea how to use maggots, and had to be talked through the procedure over the phone. But it worked perfectly: “We had amazing success with him,” she says. “We were just astounded.” Lots of medical products hype the wonders they can...