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Science, Maths & Technology
Discover Mercury: The MESSENGER project
NASA's MESSENGER visited Mercury in 2015. Here's a little about that project.
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Science, Maths & Technology
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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Science, Maths & Technology
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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Science, Maths & Technology
Discover Mercury: Why study Mercury?
What is it about Mercury that rewards a closer look?
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Science, Maths & Technology
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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Science, Maths & Technology
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.
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OpenLearn Ireland
Glenariff to Fermanagh
A look at Glenariff, one of the 9 Glens of Antrim, investigating how certain geological features managed to find their way to places they would not normally be.
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Education & Development
Additional efforts: Why we need to be better at maths
We need to be better at maths - and the suggestion that only smart people can be good with numbers is holding a lot of us back.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Can dogs read their owners' emotions?
Does a dog know what you're thinking? Can your dog empathise? It's possible, suggests new research.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Tim Peake’s spacewalk is no stroll in the park
Monica Grady tells us about what Tim Peake - the first British astronaut to do a spacewalk - is up against.
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History & The Arts
David Bowie and science fiction
It's fair to say David Bowie had an obvious fascination with space and future dystopias, Tony Keen looks at the roots of the starman's relationship with science fiction.