4 June 2021
Rovelli has been the source of some of the most intriguing ideas in fundamental physics. In this new short film, ‘The Meaning of Meaning', the physicist explains how a rebellious past has influenced his science.
6 August 2020
Air travel contributes to climate change, but scientists have only recently discovered that climate change is, in turn, affecting air travel. Paul Williams explains how climate change will affect your future flights.
28 April 2020
From wearable sensors to solar panels, we are developing new materials from the stuff of peacock feathers and butterfly wings. Physicist Jess Wade shows how.
28 April 2020
Maths is in everything from your credit card PIN to how many friends you have. Compute how to figure out apps and speed dating with TV presenter and mathematician Bobby Seagull.
12 December 2019
Maths is in everything from your credit card PIN to how many friends you have. Compute how with TV presenter and maths whizz Bobby Seagull
9 December 2019
Join Michael De Podesta as he explains how he made the world’s most precise thermometer – and demonstrates its principle live on stage
10 May 2019
Wibbly wobbly they may be, but liquids are jam-packed with surprises. Materials scientist Mark Miodownik betrays the anarchic secrets of the wet stuff.
1 February 2019
Australia’s national treasure Dr Karl on making “free electricity”, Murphy’s law, engineering in childbirth and other “strange engineering”
1 February 2019
David Mahon is using muon particles from space to illuminate secrets buried in the pyramids and elsewhere.
14 January 2019
Hear what Ceri Brenner does with laser light 1,000 billion billion times more powerful than natural sunlight, from designing new X-ray technology that can see through steel to creating initiating reactions in fusion reactors.
