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...researchers. Some of the plants and animals that live here are found nowhere else on Earth. Today that biodiversity is under threat from an increasing population, tourism and invasive non-native species. The video tracks on this album retraces Darwin's first steps on the Galapagos islands, looks at some of the species that fascinated him, and at how threats to the...

...research focuses on life at the limits. She is particularly interested in microorganisms that live in extreme environments, including the International Space Station, and terrestrial environments that are analogues for extra-terrestrial locations. [Dr. Mark Fox Powell] Dr. Mark Fox Powell Research Fellow, AstrobiologyOU Mark is a planetary geochemist and his research is...

...children were able to catch usually evasive octopuses with their bare hands; cats had convulsions and died. It was not until the 1960s that many local people became overtly ill. They had convulsions, began to stagger about and salivated excessively; deaths began to occur, including newly born children. The source of the problem was a chemical factory that was discharging...

...Research done by the UK Centre for Astrobiology (Wadsworth and Cockell, 2017) showed these chemicals can even kill very hardy spore-forming bacteria that can survive most conditions on Earth. Even though Mars is mostly dry now, the Martian landscape has features that on Earth are associated with flowing water, meaning there was once water on Mars’s surface. We know...

...centre of the storm? Well, vector calculus holds the key. The tracks on this album introduce you to the scalar and vector fields of gradient, divergence and curl. This material makes up part of the course MST209, Mathematical methods and models... Grad, Div and Curl A short introduction to this album. Grad Introduction to this gradient vector. What is meant by 'steepness...