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Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery

...Open University research student Zoe Morland...The Moon is the most extensively studied planetary body outside of Earth. Despite this, its formation mechanism is still a mystery. Transcript Astronomy & Planetary Science The Formation of the Moon Zoe Morland: Have you wondered how the Moon was made? The Moon is the most extensively studied planetary body outside of Earth....
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Cwestiynau Cyffredin am Gyfrifiannell Carbon Y Brifysgol Agored
Nature & Environment

Cwestiynau Cyffredin am Gyfrifiannell Carbon Y Brifysgol Agored

...Open’ I ddileu ffeil, dewiswch hi a dewiswch ‘Delete’. Pam nad yw'r gyfrifiannell yn gofyn am ddata go iawn? Bydd rhai cyfrifianellau'n gofyn i ddefnyddwyr am ‘ddata go iawn’, fel faint o nwy a thrydan y maent yn ei ddefnyddio bob blwyddyn, faint o filltiroedd y maent yn ei deithio mewn car, pa mor bell y maent yn hedfan ac ati. Fodd bynnag, mae llawer o...
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Jack Perks - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Jack Perks - Earth in Vision

...source to where it enters the River Trent – water voles, dippers, otters, all this amazing wildlife that I didn’t realise I had locally. I’ve got a book coming out in September; I’ve always got something on the go so I keep myself busy. What do you expect to be doing in the next ten years? Hopefully, making enough money to keep the heating on and have a...
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Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?

...open wound, where a street dog grabbed hold of him and dragged him for four feet before his great-aunt Veena came out of the house screaming. “That’s when the dog grabbed onto my face,” says Veena, her own right cheek imprinted with the faint outline of canine teeth. She later lost consciousness as she and Bhuvan were being driven to their local, rural hospital. A...
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What is a scientific model?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a scientific model?

...open up the model, okay, so what it’s showing me here is you can see here that it’s showing me that field size has a positive influence on skylark numbers. The bigger the field size, the more skylarks there are. And it’s also showing me that there’s in effect a crop type there. It’s showing me that spring cereals here have more skylarks in them than winter...
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Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...open and unhealed, bacteria move in. Even when this doesn’t result in an overt infection, a thin layer of bacteria can create a biofilm that covers the sore. Large groups of biofilm bacteria coat themselves in sugars and other barriers that keep antibiotics from killing them off. Biofilms, along with dead tissue, mean that even the most advanced wound treatments won’t...
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Why I believe 'yes' is only a matter of time
Society, Politics & Law

Why I believe 'yes' is only a matter of time

...You’ve just returned from a lecture tour in the USA and back here at the Open University we heard that you kicked up a storm. What is it about the Scottish Independence Referendum that caught people’s imagination in the United States? Gerry Mooney: Well, can I start by blaming Mel Gibson, yes, and you obviously have an Australian connection, so you’ve probably got some idea why I’m criticising Mel Gibson, because ......
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Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?

...open up. Indeed, far from coming together the two tribes seem further away from each other than ever. The British public seem to think that over the next few years (whatever that means) Brexit will be bad for the UK. In a recent Opinium poll for The Observer, when asked ‘Do you think leaving the EU will ultimately be good or bad for the UK?’ 18% replied ‘very...
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