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Science, Maths & Technology
Discover Mercury: BepiColombo's instruments
A closer look at the instruments that BepiColombo has been tricked out with.
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Discover Mercury: The BepiColombo mission
An introduction to 2017's BepiColombo mission.
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Discover Mercury: Volcanism, faults and hollows
What do we already know - or think we know - about the geology of Mercury?
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Discover Mercury: International collaboration
The journey to another world relies on co-operation all around this one.
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Discover Mercury: What inspires and drives you?
What is it about Mercury that attracts scientists to study the planet?
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Discover Mercury: The MESSENGER project
NASA's MESSENGER visited Mercury in 2015. Here's a little about that project.
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Discover Mercury: What questions will BepiColombo try to answer?
We don't know very much about Mercury, so there's a lot for BepiColombo to investigate...
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Discover Mercury: Why spend the money?
It's not cheap to send spacecraft to Mercury - how do you justify the expense?
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Discover Mercury: Why study Mercury?
What is it about Mercury that rewards a closer look?
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Discover Mercury: Introduction
November 11th sees the Transit of Mercury. Get to know the planet we're starting to find out a whole lot more about.
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Why don't statistics reveal when sports matches have been fixed?
Sport is awash in data - so you'd assume it'd be easy to tell if a game has been rigged on the whim of a shady gambling syndicate. It's not that easy, though - and as David Lucy explains, it's the same problem that stops us being able to spot rogue doctors and nurses...
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OpenLearn Ireland
Rathlin Island and Lough Neagh
Learn about seabirds in enormous numbers, the changing appearance of the landscape as plant species changed with the changing temperatures and a relict fish that’s being conserved by local volunteers.