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Society, Politics & Law
Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?
The way much research on sexual differentiation is conducted and communicated has come under intense criticism from scholars in both the natural and social sciences. Cliodhna O’Connor describes how traditional gender stereotypes are projected onto scientific information and its subsequent reporting. But the dynamics of online spaces have also ...
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Nature & Environment
What effect does increasing noise pollution have on mammals?
A researcher explains how prairie dogs appear to have developed strategies to keep alert in noisier environments - but there might be a downside.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Geology toolkit: safety tips
Use our guide to help you collect rocks safely, and within the rules.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Geology toolkit: UK rocks by region
Use the Geology Toolkit to discover the UK's rocks, region by region
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Science, Maths & Technology
Geology toolkit: landscape features
The Geology Toolkit helps explain some of the UK's familiar landscapes
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Science, Maths & Technology
Geology toolkit: rock types
The Geology Toolkit helps explain the three main types of rock - igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary
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Science, Maths & Technology
60 second adventures in microgravity
What is microgravity, and how does it help science research? This series, funded by the UK Space Agency, explores how we recreate microgravity conditions on Earth, and why they are beneficial to scientific research.
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Science, Maths & Technology
60 second adventures: Behind the scenes
Go behind the scenes with the 60-second adventures team to learn how OU academic content is transformed into informative and entertaining short animations.
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Digital & Computing
Why has reaching the Chinese internet audience just got a little harder?
The Chinese State is tightening rules on how foreign organisations reach its citizens online. Oiwan Lam explains.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Is a technological solution always the best? The politics of toilets
The Nano Membrane Toilet is great news - but are we producing over-engineered solution?
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Science, Maths & Technology
What is a scientific model?
BBC Inside Science answers a listener question by discussing scientific models and how they are used.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Design for urban living: how we live and how we might live
In the UK there is a rush to build more homes. Is there a different way of making the houses we want to live in, that suits the ways we live in cities now?