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The Silver Bridge Disaster: Eyebars in suspension
Science, Maths & Technology

The Silver Bridge Disaster: Eyebars in suspension

...work commenced on the Silver Bridge another bridge, almost identical in design, was constructed at St Marys, about 70 miles upstream from Point Pleasant. The bridge was formally named the ‘Hi Carpenter’ bridge. Walter Carpenter It was really ready for a big thing to happen at St Mary’s, and people were just rousing to welcome this new thing called a bridge crossing...
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Seismograph
Society, Politics & Law

Seismograph

...work? To make a seismograph, you need to get one thing to move with the earth as it shakes, and something else to stay as still as possible relative to the earth. Not easy when the whole earth is moving! Ideally, you’d have a pen, suspended in space, not influenced by the earth at all, marking onto paper that is fixed to the earth. But that’s impossible. The fixing of...
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Supporting sustainable and responsible space exploration
Science, Maths & Technology

Supporting sustainable and responsible space exploration

...work at Astrobiology OU aims to strike the right balance between industry’s need for agile and cost-effective processes for building spacecraft and rovers and scientists’ desires to conduct meaningful, state-of-the-art, astrobiology experiments. [The ExoMars - Rosalind Franklin - Rover during the environmental testing phase at Airbus Toulouse.] The ExoMars - Rosalind...
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Autumn Statement 2016: Tories shift to growth strategy in an Ed Balls-style pirouette
Society, Politics & Law

Autumn Statement 2016: Tories shift to growth strategy in an Ed Balls-style pirouette

...work benefits – in case the Supreme Court’s Brexit verdict forces an early election. Big infrastructure projects are a favoured way to kickstart stalling economies because they can quickly create jobs in areas that most need them. They also generate income that mostly gets spent, boosting other activity. Such projects can pay for themselves through extra tax revenues...
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Can animals be courageous?
History & The Arts

Can animals be courageous?

...work by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato (c. 427–347 bce) this tradition is called into question. Plato’s discussion raises some broader issues about the nature of courage and how it relates to moral knowledge or understanding. Like most of Plato’s works, Laches is written as a dialogue between a small number of characters. Plato’s dialogues are set in the...
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DIY: Generate your own electricity
Science, Maths & Technology

DIY: Generate your own electricity

...works on the same basic principles as the power station generators that supply domestic electricity. How a generator works When an electric current flows through a wire, it generates a three-dimensional magnetic force field around the wire, similar to that surrounding a bar magnet. Magnets are also surrounded by a similar three-dimensional field. This can be ‘seen’ in...
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Exploring Europa
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring Europa

...surface. Another aspect of our work is to use knowledge of life in extreme environments on Earth to learn how to protect Europa from contamination from future spacecraft. Within a decade, a treasure trove of new data will emerge from Europa, but it’s only through the work we do here on Earth that we can turn this data into understanding of Europa’s potential for life....
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Mary Shelley: the expert view
History & The Arts

Mary Shelley: the expert view

...work, the co-authored text History of a Six Weeks Tour (published 1817), described some of their travels. [Manuscript page from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, 1816.] Manuscript page from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, 1816. In February 1815 Mary gave birth to Clara, who lived for only twelve days. Her journal shows that she was haunted by the sense that the death might have...
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