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Death on the tracks: A 19th century train crash
History & The Arts

Death on the tracks: A 19th century train crash

...work further down the line. He could not tell the reason why the distance signal was taken off, because the line was not clear. It was turned off some distance up the line. As soon as he saw the wharf train he told the driver, and he jumped off the engine. The cause of the accident appeared to arise from some person having turned off the danger signal. The signal being...
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Rare diseases: low numbers, high impact
Science, Maths & Technology

Rare diseases: low numbers, high impact

...work is aimed to understand the causes of the heart dysfunction observed in later life in individuals with CLN3 Disease (read about Broken Hearts in Batten Disease). Other groups in the School of Life, Health and Chemical Sciences at The Open University also incorporate the study of rare diseases into their research. As one of the many diseases they study, the Blood Brain...
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England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses
History & The Arts

England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses

...work hard to raise awareness of Britain’s military heritage. Annual festivals, like that held on the site of the Battle of Tewkesbury, commemorate the events of centuries past, bringing together reenactors, ‘Living History’ enthusiasts and the wider public as part of a burgeoning heritage industry. Yet the history relating to historic battlefields is often hard to...
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Pushing through the speed barrier: trailblazing women in motorsport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Pushing through the speed barrier: trailblazing women in motorsport

...working in senior jobs in F1, Mueller is set to be the first to work in the role of race engineer. As a race engineer, she will work most closely with Esteban Ocon on the set-up and running of his car and will be the main link between the driver and the team on the track through radio communications. Additionally, Carine Cridelich will join Haas as new Head of Strategy...
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Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...working with today has a clear structure. First there are two parts of the team, the engineers and the scientists. The engineers keep the rover safe, watch over its health and put together all the sequences that make the rover measure and image the targets that we scientists pick out as interesting and of scientific importance. I am a mineralogist by training, and thus I...
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Introducing ICT systems
Digital & Computing

Introducing ICT systems

...work. You will also look at how ICT systems convey, store and manipulate data, and how they process data. Finally you will learn how these systems are used...Information and communication technologies (ICTs) systems now dominate our everyday lives. This free course, Introducing ICT systems, will explain what constitutes such a system and how ICT systems work. You will...
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The Passing of the New: Bowie and Boulez
History & The Arts

The Passing of the New: Bowie and Boulez

...work which contains no prescribed sound at all, whose best-known book on music is called Silence. He was a close friend of Boulez in the 1950s; Bowie named Silence as one of his favourite books. Cage was convinced that the conventional, the ordinary, the expected, were all enemies of the truly musical. Boulez took from him a commitment to the utterly new; Bowie’s...
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Extinctions at World Heritage Sites aren't just environmental disasters
Nature & Environment

Extinctions at World Heritage Sites aren't just environmental disasters

...warns that populations of some fish, lobsters and molluscs have declined dramatically in recent years, leaving local fishermen and traders with less stock to sell. “It's a constant battle” she says. “Unless NGOs, society and government work together, we will not see a major change”. This article was originally published by SciDevNet under a CC-BY licence...
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