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How can I cope with exam stress
Education & Development

How can I cope with exam stress

...physical exercise, taking breaks from study and getting enough sleep all ensure that your stress levels are kept under control. You also need to try and balance your drive for performance in your exams and assignments with doing things that are personally meaningful to you in your life. This is important, as research has shown that this is essential to your health and...
60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence
Digital & Computing

60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence

...the best ways to win. Adversarial learning can be applied in certain situations when training data are scarce, but a general goal for the algorithm can be defined. It has been used in scientific contexts to intelligently enhance the resolution of astrophysical images or mimic the effect of physical processes to artificially make galaxies look older or younger. Transcript...
The Z Files: Chi Onwurah
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Z Files: Chi Onwurah

...physics and maths teachers, and it isn’t a cool thing to do. Which is why, you know, we need poets and filmmakers and the media as well to say engineering and science is great. Benjamin Zephaniah Say if I wanted to be like you, you are my hero, is there a chance for me or do I just forget it? Chi Onwurah I don’t believe it’s ever too late. You don’t have to have...
Can we be categorised by our DNA?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can we be categorised by our DNA?

...physical appearance’, Nature Communications 9(5388). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07748-z Gilbert, E., O’Reilly, S., Merrigan, M. et al. (2017) ‘The Irish DNA Atlas: Revealing Fine-Scale Population Structure and History within Ireland’, Scientific Reports 7(17199). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17124-4 IGSR: The International...
Reducing digital carbon footprint through responsible procurement
Nature & Environment

Reducing digital carbon footprint through responsible procurement

...physical alternatives, is inconsequential. However, it is not that clear-cut, nor as little as you might expect. Simply put, digital is not carbon-free. Everything from asset tracking tags to Wi-Fi access points, laptops, mobile phones, computer servers, webpages and video conference calls have their own carbon footprints. Impactful purchasing Approximately 80% of the...
What does it mean to be a South Asian young adult carer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What does it mean to be a South Asian young adult carer?

...physically demanding and tiring. The young people often worried about the people they cared for and also about their own health. As they did not have much free time, there was little time for hobbies and they missed seeing their friends. Managing the caring role alongside studying The young adult carers we interviewed were also studying at college or university. Like...
What can I do about my mental health when I don’t have the support I need?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What can I do about my mental health when I don’t have the support I need?

...physical and mental health. Your local library will be a good starting point to find out about such activities. Many mental health problems can be addressed by getting support, so although it can be tempting to take a ‘wait and see’ approach, if you have difficulties that have persisted for several weeks or more, it is worth considering one or more of the six...
Researching Antarctic ice sheets
Nature & Environment

Researching Antarctic ice sheets

...physical laws governing how ice sliding depends on the bed (such as how slippery it is), different maps of the bedrock topography, and different dates of the triggering of instability by warm ocean water or ice shelf collapse. This approach of using a whole ‘ensemble’ of simulations is very common in climate science and other areas of science that use computer models....