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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?
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Do the people who claim to be the first of a new human/machine hybrid genuinely represent a new way of living - or are they wrong? Frieda Klotz went to the Cyborg Fair to find out.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Cell signalling
This free course, Cell signalling, explains the general principles of signal transduction and specifically, how even the simplest organisms can detect and respond to events in their ever-changing environment.
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Science, Maths & Technology
What is the genome made of?
Genomes are composed of DNA, and a knowledge of the structure of DNA is essential to understand how it can function as hereditary material. DNA is remarkable, breathtakingly simple in its structure yet capable of directing all the living processes in a cell, the production of new cells and the development of a fertilized egg to an individual ...
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Minerals and the crystalline state
Rocks are made of minerals and, as minerals are natural crystals, the geological world is mostly a crystalline world. This free course, Minerals and the crystalline state, introduces the study of minerals and crystal structures, using online text and interactive activities, including questions and answers, video clips, slidecasts and a Digital Kit.
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Earthquakes
Earthquakes shake the ground surface, can cause buildings to collapse, disrupt transport and services, and can cause fires. They can trigger landslides and tsunami in short, earthquakes can be very destructive. In this free course, Earthquakes, you will look at why, where and what happens when they occur and also at how earthquakes are assessed...