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Jonathan Edwards' giant world record leap – what can we learn from his long career?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Jonathan Edwards' giant world record leap – what can we learn from his long career?

...free, both of which are starting to be recognised as having genetic components. An international athlete’s craft involves refining diet, responding to coaching analysis, conditioning in the gym and making wise travel arrangements. While in the arena, optimising the warm-up, saving energy for competition and coping with pressure all need to be incrementally developed...
Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change
Nature & Environment

Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change

...free for anyone to use and is, in my experience, easy to work with. The data collection itself is a healthy outdoor activity, and your registered data contributes to a much bigger project mapping the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland’s trees, helping to improve understanding and management of trees. I would encourage anyone and everyone to get involved – it’s...
The Asian Single Parents Network (ASPN)
Education & Development

The Asian Single Parents Network (ASPN)

...free for members. [Mother and her baby] What our member's say about us Read what members say about ASPN: https://aspnetwork.org.uk/reviews Our achievements We were featured in various BBC media during the COVID-19 pandemic including being interviewed by Loose Woman Kaye Adams, on BBC Radio Scotland. Following this we were covered in Asian media such as Eastern Eye and...
The ocean of Jupiter’s moon Europa
Science, Maths & Technology

The ocean of Jupiter’s moon Europa

...free surface, possibly reflecting the exchange of material between the ice shell and an ocean below. It also detected salts on the surface, which could arise from an ocean interacting with rocks at a seafloor, and arc-like surface fractures that appear to require a subsurface ocean for their formation. Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have also reported...
The machine that is still changing the world
Science, Maths & Technology

The machine that is still changing the world

...free vehicles in real time. The job of assembling a complete car takes many hours. The Burnaston factory needs to complete production of one car every 84 seconds to keep pace with demand and hence the assembly task has to be broken down into multiple steps that each take no longer than 84 seconds. If a task takes longer, the stage in the process has to be duplicated...
The science of genetics
Nature & Environment

The science of genetics

...free with no restrictions on their use or distribution. Analysing sections of DNA Fragments of DNA have to be propagated, i.e., large numbers of copies made of individual DNA fragments, generally grown up as sections of DNA in bacteria, or in the test tube, by all the laboratory techniques such as a polymerase chain reaction. A polymerase chain reaction is a technique...
Banks as utilities and the future of payments
Money & Business

Banks as utilities and the future of payments

...free, in any mobile phone you’re on. All of your mobile data, all of the times you use it, the payments, where you use the phone, and how you use it. That’s what’s going to these companies for free. They crunch that using AI and they come up with better ways to provide services. In the future, maybe we can charge them for taking that data of us. Charge Facebook for...
Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...free from illness’ and other terms focused on physical aspects of health. Most academics now accept that mental health and physical wellbeing are intertwined. For example, the definition of mental health used by the World Health Organization (WHO) relies on a broad concept of 'wellbeing': A state of wellbeing in which every individual realizes his or her own potential,...