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Planetary Protection of Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

Planetary Protection of Mars

...System bodies from contamination by Earth life and protecting Earth from possible life forms that may be returned from other Solar System bodies.​ Approaches to this taken by space agencies and mission teams have changed over the 60 years of Mars exploration and will continue to adapt to new scientific understanding of the planet and of life itself. However, the central...
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What do we need to know about our memory?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we need to know about our memory?

...systems. Pathological ageing is being often referred to as speeded-up ageing, where due to some missing components (self-repair functions, quickly advancing changes in neurotransmitters and neurones; significantly increased presence of plaques and tangles in the brain; or chronic inflammations) the decline of our brain progresses faster when compared to physiological...
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The Open University's Carbon Calculator
Nature & Environment

The Open University's Carbon Calculator

...system, some other sectors and embedded in imports have fallen as the UK and other countries attempt to move towards net zero. According to official statistics, by 2019 total UK consumption-based emissions were 774 million tonnes CO2e (Figure 1) meaning that the average carbon footprint was about 11.6 tonnes CO2e/person/year. By 2022 the average footprint is estimated to...
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What astronomical object was the Christmas Star?
Science, Maths & Technology

What astronomical object was the Christmas Star?

...system and is a leftover from our planetary formation process. As the comet gets closer to the Sun and becomes heated, the ice can turn straight to gas carrying dust particles out into space. The gas and dust create impressive tails that can reach up to millions of kilometres in length. [Comet C/2020 F3 (Neowise) photographed during July 2020 in the northern sky]Figure 2...
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Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens
Education & Development

Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens

...system that has historically marginalised voices like mine. My current research project, titled ‘Mothering at the Margins’, has been designed with another researcher who is also a Black female academic and mother to autistic children. The study explores the perspectives of Black mothers of autistic children to gain an insight into how race, gender and disability...
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Article 35 mins
The formation of exoplanets
Science, Maths & Technology

The formation of exoplanets

...System. These include ‘hot Jupiters’ orbiting very close to their parent star and rocky ‘super Earths’ many times larger than our home planet. In this free course, The formation of exoplanets, you will learn about the challenges connected with efforts to reconcile the observed exoplanet population with current theories on how planets form. The two main theories...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...system a bit away from fossil fuels, towards lower carbon forms of energy. RH: Well the public sector has made solar vastly cheaper, hasn’t it, that extraordinary and some people thought at the time, Quixotic ambition from the Germans for a million solar roofs in cloudy Northern Europe, but that unleashed a huge amount of private investment into R&D and then stimulated...
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Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...systems that we construct to make organisations function. Often, we distinguish between macro organisational behaviour, the study of organisations in their wider social, political, and economic contexts, and micro organisational behaviour, the study of individuals' behaviour in the context of organisations they are members of and the wider context of their membership in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs