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Scientists from The Open University (OU) have developed a new technique to help predict when a volcano is most likely to erupt based on measurements of how much nearby ground swells.

The OU is part of a €500,000 collaborative project with other members of the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities to develop shorter learning programmes.

OU Post Doctoral Research Associate, Dr Queenie Chan, is one of the authors of the paper, The Martian subsurface as a potential window into the origin of life, just published in Nature Geoscience, which considers the possibility of signs of life on Mars.

OU researchers are part of a £1,008,352 project to study cyber security decisions during software development.

OU researchers have been awarded £500,000 by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), to research the factors that motivate software developers to build security measures into software development. 

If we have to feed 9.8 billion people by 2050, food from the ocean will have to play a major role.

The vaginal speculum – that creepy looking metal device used to examine the vagina and cervix – has remained largely unchanged since the 19th century.

The Scottish geologist James Hutton made a proposal in 1788 that, at the time, was extraordinarily controversial.

The 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict enters British law today (Tuesday 12 December 2017).

Today Mars has only a thin atmosphere, and its surface is very dry with the possible exception of some localised and temporary water seeps.