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Science, Maths & Technology
A trip to Mercury
The OU's Dave Rothery recently gave a Tedx talk on what he's learned as part of the team preparing for the European Space Agency’s BepiColombo mission to Mercury.
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Nature & Environment
Life in the Palaeozoic
Fossils are a glimpse into the distant past and fascinate young and old alike. This free course, Life in the Palaeozoic, will introduce you to the explosion of evolution that took place during the Palaeozoic era. You will look at the many different types of creatures that existed at that time and how they managed to evolve to exist on land.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Seven projects that show we are in a golden age of engineering
What are some of the country's high-profile engineering projects?
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Pluto comes into sharp focus – but it’s still not a planet
New Horizons is giving us the chance to see Pluto, close-up, for the first time. But familiarity won't restore Pluto's planet status.
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Science, Maths & Technology
If Infinity Wars had peer review instead of script editors
Bill Sullivan imagines the feedback facing The Avengers, if Hollywood worked the way scientific journals work. WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS.
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Education & Development
Tomorrow's Ed
What's possible in the future of education? We've pulled together some of our best FREE learning content pondering this question...
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Nature & Environment
Plastic planet
The discovery of plastic unleashed humanity's creativity, as we embraced the magic of this versatile product. But it was at a cost - has the material which made the 21st Century brought about an environmental catastrophe?
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Science, Maths & Technology
Golden Globe Ocean Race 2018
OU alumni Antoine Cousot is currently circumnavigating the globe for 30,000 miles, alone. Here, our academics explore information, science and ideas about the ocean.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Are selfies a terrible thing?
Is the rise of the selfie a sign of a culture collapsing into narcissism - or is there something positive in the trend of arm's length self portraiture?
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Science, Maths & Technology
Approaches to software development
This free course, Approaches to software development, presents an engineering approach to the development of software systems – a software engineering approach. The course pays particular attention to issues of software quality, in terms of both product (what is built) and process (how we build it).
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The civil engineer's fear of the penalty shoot-out: Predicting the World Cup
Civil Engineering uses a lot of predictions; World Cups generate a lot of predictions. Charles MacRobert brings the two worlds together.
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Languages
Can you learn a language with an app?
From Duolingo to busuu, there are a variety of apps out there promising to revolutionise language learning - but how effective are they? Fernando Rosell-Aguilar explores...