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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....
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...
How does the human body fight a viral infection?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does the human body fight a viral infection?

...Open University's Health Sciences qualification. The immune response to viral infection The immune response to a viral infection is primarily generated by a type of white blood cell called lymphocytes; cells that are mostly localised in ‘lymphoid tissues’ such as the lymph nodes or tonsils. However, the number of lymphocytes that can recognise and react against any...
Mathemateg bob dydd 2
Science, Maths & Technology

Mathemateg bob dydd 2

...Education 338, cangen addysgol The Exilarch’s Foundation. Ysgrifennwyd y cwrs hwn, sydd am ddim, gan Kerry Lloyd, Frances Hughes a Tracy Mitchell yng Ngholeg Cambria, mewn partneriaeth ag Addysg Oedolion Cymru, Coleg Gwent, Grŵp Coleg Castell-nedd Port Talbot a’r Brifysgol Agored, ac mewn cydweithrediad ag Joanne Davies, West Herts College, gan ddefnyddio deunyddiau...
Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...open landscape appears very much as a flat backdrop. Despite its grim subject, the painting has a certain picturesque appeal, thanks to the exotic costumes, light tonality, vivid colours and loose handling of paint. Overall, it can be said that this work retains the ambitions of a history painting but breaks with the aesthetic and moral idealism traditionally expected of...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Climate change: References - Edwards, P. N. and Schneider, S. H. (2001) Self-governance and peer review in science-for-policy: the case of the IPCC Second Assessment Report, in Miller, C. and Edwards, P. N. (eds) Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and...
Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...resources that are available in our own system from the asteroids and things like that. Dallas Campbell: But even if we hadn’t obviously, you know, despite what people may think they see or believe happens we have, you know, other civilisations haven’t come here. Why haven’t we been able to detect them? I mean, forget about space travel but … Frank Drake: Why...
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...