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Nature & Environment
Indian summer monsoon amplified global warming 130,000 years ago, helping end ice age
The Indian summer monsoon contributes to methane emissions, thus impacting the climate. Was it this that ended the ice age thousands of years ago?
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Nature & Environment
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Monsoon and its role on regulating global climate in the past
How can we predict the Indian Summer Monsoon rainfall in relation to conditions such as climate change? Dr Pallavi Anand explores...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Forensic science and fingerprints
This free course, Forensic science and fingerprints, covers how science can make fingerprints easier to study, how they are used in court and some of the questions about the extent to which fingerprint identification is sound and scientific. Students will learn the principles used in classifying and matching fingerprints (often called marks).
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Science, Maths & Technology
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Drifting continents and a stormy passage
How did the Pacific Ocean form, why is it getting smaller, why is it surrounded by the ‘Ring of Fire’ and why does the Drake Passage play such an important role in our current climate?
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Science, Maths & Technology
Influenza: A case study
This free course, Influenza: A case study, explores the biology of influenza, covering a range of topics including: the virus, infection, replication, mutation, immune responses, pathology, surveillance, diagnosis and treatment.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
How lenses and mirrors work
How do lenses and mirrors change the path of light - and what effect do their shapes have?
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Science, Maths & Technology
More working with charts, graphs and tables
When you encounter maths or technical content you'll need to know how to interpret this information, and possibly to present your own findings in this way. This free course, More working with charts, graphs and tables, will help you to develop the skills you need to do this, and gain the confidence to use them. This free course builds on our ...
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Science, Maths & Technology
Emmy Noether: Bucking the historical trends
Mathematics isn't solely the pursuit of men. We should celebrate great thinkers like Emmy Noether and the superb work of women in mathematics today
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Science, Maths & Technology
Fancy a mission? Join the Weather-It community
Don't just watch the weather - join Weather-It and get inside it!
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Science, Maths & Technology
What is technology?
It might seem a straightforward question, but technology is about more than gadgets and gizmos. Andy Lane explains what it means to different people.
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Nature & Environment
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
What is biodiversity? When was it discovered? How does it vary across the globe? Luke Mander explains...
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Nature & Environment
Surviving the winter
In this free course, Surviving the winter, we study one aspect of the fluctuating nature of an organisms environment. We consider how organisms living in a temperate climate, such as that in Britain, are adapted to cope with winter. You will see that there is much diversity of adaptations among organisms, with different species coping with the ...