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Science, Maths & Technology
The Perseid meteor shower 2017
The Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak this year on the nights of 11th-13th August. Find out more about meteors, Perseus and what meteors have to do with ancient Egypt here...
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Society, Politics & Law
Despite sanctions, North Korea's nuclear programme is enjoying success. How?
Despite over a decade of sanctions, North Korea has pursued an ever-more-successful program aimed at developing nuclear weapons. So, asks Daniel Salisbury, have sanctions failed?
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Money & Business
Can science make you a better leader?
We're going through a period where trust in leadership is at an all time low. Does science have any advice for those who would be out in front?
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Science, Maths & Technology
What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?
The race to contactless transactions and virtual currency puts those with least at the most risk, warns Dana Kornberg
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Science, Maths & Technology
How are Ethiopian coffee growers responding to climate change?
As the climate changes, Ethiopia's coffee industry is under threat. But faced with a mountain to climb, climbing a mountain might provide a solution. Baraka Rateng’ explains.
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Nature & Environment
Using data visualisation to track climate change
A German team have created a tool to show the scale of effort required to beat climate change - and to help stakeholders understand challenges and responsibilities.
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Science, Maths & Technology
What do volcanoes tell us about the possibility of life on Mars?
Discoveries of volcanoes on the surface of the Red Planet suggests that life could once have been supported there. Dave Rothery explains how.
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Money & Business
Chlorine-washed chicken: An OpenLearn reading list
As the prospects of a post-Brexit UK/US trade deal get caught up in the question of chickens washed in chlorine, here's a short guide to background reading on poultry standards
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Science, Maths & Technology
How can you tell if a signal from space is an alien communication?
Humanity scans the skies, hoping to hear from other intelligent species. But how can you be sure you've tuned in to aliens and not just got interference? Andy Norton explains.
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Science, Maths & Technology
What do genes do?
This free course, What do genes do?, explores how information contained in DNA is used, explaining the flow of information from DNA to RNA to protein. Also introduced are the concepts of transcription (as occurs between DNA and RNA) and translation.
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Science, Maths & Technology
How do rules on contamination limit our ability to explore space?
For good reasons, there are rules about how we run the risk of introducing Earth microbes onto other planets. Dave Rothery suggests we might need to relax those standards as we explore further.
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History & The Arts
Introducing the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematical
Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematical was published 330 years ago today. To mark the anniversary, here's Newton's original introduction to the work.