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Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...energy-intensive lifestyles (large cars, frequent air travel, energy-hungry appliances, etc.). European societies have followed a similar route, although they have not reached the same intensity of resource use. Although they would rarely put it in these words, many NGOs and commentators are absorbed by the question of whether a high-consumption lifestyle can be divorced...
Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...energy? TS: I got interested in climate and it's through the backdoor of climate that energy became an issue. But I must say my primary research interest and competence and activity has been around the question of climate change. RH: But you're now drawn into energy de facto because it's so important with everything that happens to do with the climate. TS: Absolutely, but...
What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...energy from one place to another. In this short course you will discover the difference between transverse and longitudinal waves and gain an understanding of the properties of waves. You will gain an understanding of the process of echolocation and then undertake some online research to discover how bats use echolocation to locate their prey. You will also learn how...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
An introduction to geology
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to geology

...solar system. That meant that there wasn’t much chance for life to get a start. It wasn’t until 4:30 AM that we see the earliest evidence for life on Earth. And it’s not until 5:38 that we actually have any good fossils. And even these are microscopic. Sometime around dawn, life started to produce enough oxygen from photosynthesis that oxygen started to become...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
What is COVID-19?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is COVID-19?

...energy and to evade medication, by parasitizing the host’s cells. This makes it extremely difficult to use chemotherapy to target the virus itself, without impacting on the normal function of the cells within the body. However, extensive research and cutting-edge techniques have led to the production of highly successful drugs for specific viral infections, most notably...
Climate threat as grave a risk as nuclear war - Climate News Network
Nature & Environment

Climate threat as grave a risk as nuclear war - Climate News Network

...energy by 2025. In a foreword to the latest report, Baroness Anelay, a minister at the British foreign office, writes that assessing the risks surrounding nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation means understanding inter-dependent elements − including what science says is possible, what other countries may intend, and systemic factors such as regional power dynamics....
Here's how we can save the car – and the planet at the same time
Science, Maths & Technology

Here's how we can save the car – and the planet at the same time

...energy intensive to produce due to the materials that compose them. New ideas needed So what is the alternative to the current system? If car travel is going to remain common, perhaps we need to be smarter about how we build and use them. Our cars currently spend 92% of their time parked – and, when driving, most of their weight is used only to carry one person most of...
How we found gravitational waves
Science, Maths & Technology

How we found gravitational waves

...energy. In a fraction of a second, the power radiated through these waves was more than ten times greater than the combined luminosity of every star and galaxy in the observable universe. This was a truly cataclysmic event a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. In Star Wars Darth Vader tells us not to “underestimate the power of the dark side”. This amazing...