Catégories

Soil as a body in its own right: how it forms from rock and organic matter, how it holds water and nutrients, and how it degrades.

The Sun as a physical object: its interior, its magnetic cycle, flares and coronal mass ejections, and the solar wind that reaches the Earth.

The synthesis and structure of solids, and how a crystal lattice determines electrical, magnetic and optical behaviour.

What spaceflight does to living organisms: microgravity, radiation, isolation, and the countermeasures that keep a crew healthy. Distinct from astrobiology, which asks where life is rather than how it copes.

Spanish as an object of study: its grammar, its history, and the varieties of Spain and Latin America.

Teaching learners with disabilities and learning difficulties, and the long argument about whether that is best done separately or in the ordinary classroom.

Reading matter through its interaction with light: which wavelengths a sample absorbs or emits, and what that says about its structure.

The body under athletic load: training, performance, injury and recovery, studied physiologically and biomechanically.

Inference from data: how to estimate, test, and quantify what a sample says about the population it came from.

Stars as objects: how they form, how they burn, how they end, and what their light says about their composition, mass and age.

How atoms are arranged in space within a molecule, and what that arrangement does to its behaviour. Chirality, conformation, and the reactions that care about both.

Random systems evolving in time: Markov chains, martingales, Brownian motion.

Why some firms outperform others and keep doing it: competitive position, resources and capabilities, diversification, and the decisions that are hard to reverse.

Layered rock read as a sequence in time: correlating strata between places and putting them in order.

A framework in which the fundamental objects are extended strings rather than points, pursued as a candidate theory of quantum gravity.

Working out the three-dimensional shape of biological macromolecules, and reading their function off that shape.

How a structure carries load: the analysis of frames, beams and foundations, and the margins that keep them standing under wind, weight and earthquake.

Style analysed with the tools of linguistics: the choices a text makes at the level of the sentence, and the effects they produce.

The chain of firms between a raw material and a customer: sourcing, distribution, and the way a small demand wobble amplifies as it travels upstream.

Chemistry beyond the covalent bond: host-guest complexes, molecular recognition and self-assembly held together by weak interactions.