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Teaching Climate Change greetings cards
We're very happy to report that the artwork for the greetings card from We Are Stardust is now available - and it looks fantastic!The cover artwork and inside text for the greetings card. Image ©We Are...
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Joshua Fleming
First of all hi, my name is Josh and I’m the new summer intern at Things We Don’t Know (TWDK). I’m studying Biology, Biochemistry specifically, at Leicester University and have just completed my first...
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Holly Godwin
Hi, I’m Holly, and I’m working as part of a SEPnet placement at Things We Don’t Know this summer. Firstly I would like to introduce myself and give you a bit of an overview to explain how I got into...
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How do we fall asleep?
If there’s one thing everyone has in common, it’s sleep. Regardless of age, gender, race or religion, without enough sleep we fail to function normally. As you’ve probably experienced, a lack of sleep...
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Midlife Matters
The really exciting thing about psychology is there are a huge number of unknowns... but for me a really important part is understanding how high level cognition and decision making change in...
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Can we regenerate our hearts?
In ancient Egypt the heart was a revered organ; it was believed to be the source of the soul. According to the Egyptians, all of our emotions, wisdom and even personality traits were thought to...
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The Impossible Quasar at the Dawn of the Universe
The recent extraordinary discovery of the biggest and brightest quasar of the early universe has intrigued astronomers worldwide. The reason behind this? The quasar - SDSS J010013.02+280225.8...
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New Horizons - The Mysteries of Pluto Unveiled
At 9pm on July 14th 2015, the NASA New Horizons mission team received a very important phone call.. New Horizons had completed the first ever flyby of Pluto. It took over nine years and three-billion...
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Food for Thought; the Future of Global Food?
A global food shortage may not appear to be a threat or worry for a lot of people; around half a billion have been diagnosed as obese, that’s 1 in 14 people worldwide[1]. However, with an estimated 1...
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The Inspirational Butterfly
An Insight into Developments in Solar PowerThe UN is calling for drastic action to be taken to stop climate change in its tracks. With any luck an agreement will be reached this year on the actions...
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Do cheaters prosper?
Attempting to selfishly gain an immediate advantage in a situation where others are co-operating is called social cheating. Many people are likely to bitterly recall an experience of this, queue...
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Location, Location, Location
Nuclear power and nuclear waste are sensitive public issues. Whilst the Finns are already building a geological disposal facility in Onkalo, in the UK we still haven’t decided what to do with our...
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The Energy of Atoms (other than Hydrogen)
Whilst the things we don’t know about quantum mechanics could fill a black hole, it’s still thought of as a glorious theory that swept in and revolutionised atomic theory. In a way it has, well,...
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Our face spiders - friends or foes?
You may be surprised (or perhaps horrified) to know that you have spiders on your face right now. In addition to the millions of bacteria, viruses and fungi that make up our skin microbiome (the...
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The problem of making future predictions about the destiny of long-lived nuclear waste.What is nuclear waste?Depending upon what you put into a nuclear power station and how you operate it, you get...
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What causes hangovers?
What causes the dreaded hangover? The answer is simple, right? It’s alcohol. But how does alcohol cause hangovers? The answer is less straightforward.Evidence of alcohol dates as far back as 10,000BC....
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Solanezumab and Alzheimer’s
If you had been sitting in the main room of the 2015 Alzheimer's association international conference, you would have heard a remarkable announcement: a drug - Solanezumab - has been found to delay the...
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Face blindness
How do we recognise faces?Most humans can recognise hundreds of faces, and tell the identity of each one, even in different lighting conditions or when someone has changed their hair colour or aged...
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The Case of the Jumping Carbons
Imagine you are inside a nuclear reactor, a UK design. Not only are you inside it, but you are part of it; a carbon atom inside the graphite core which houses the control rods and fuel rods (the...
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Introducing Alice
Hello all, I’m Alice and I’m the new SEPnet intern at Things We Don’t Know. I’ve just finished my third year studying physics at Royal Holloway, University of London, so I’ve just got my masters year...
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