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  • Rough Science Series Three

    Rough Science Programme 3

    Broadcast
    2002 (29 mins)

    The scientists continue to look for gold in New Zealand, following in the footsteps of the original prospectors from 1860. Ellen McCallie helps make a waterproof tent to keep Mike Bullivant and Mike Leahy...

  • Rough Science Series Three

    Rough Science

    Broadcast
    2002 (29 mins)

    New Zealand’s south island Franz Josef Glacier to measure the speed of the glacier heat without lighting fires Chemistry using coke cans and rust to keep warm & school trigonometry to measure glacier speed...

  • Rough Science Series Three

    Rough Science

    Broadcast
    2002 (29 mins)

    Kate Humble sets three tough challenges - to extract gold from rock & sand, to build an altimeter, and to use it to find buried gold from a treasure map. This is one of the wettest, wildest places on Earth,...

  • Rough Science Series Three

    Rough Science

    Broadcast
    2002 (29 mins)

    build a furnace and bellows so they can try to smelt and form gold into souvenirs turn their powdered gold flakes into a solid nugget they have to reach a white hot 1200 degrees Celsius where gold will melt....

  • Ever Wondered About Food Series One

    Ice Cream

    Broadcast
    2002 (29 mins)

    A look at the history of ice cream - how a Victorian cook introduced ‘fancy ices’ to the middle classes in 1894. Incl recipes for deep fried vanilla ice cream and speedy cucumber ice cream. Pres by Alan...

  • Blue Sky

    Lab on a Chip

    Broadcast
    2001 (5 mins)

    Steven Haswell has inventied a ‘mirco-reactor’ - a small glass chip that carries out chemical reactions on a molecular level. He is completely rethinking chemistry and his invention could see the end of...

  • Blue Sky

    Flights of Fancy

    Broadcast
    2001 (5 mins)

    Optical physicists from Exeter University have discovered by chance, very complex microscopic structures in butterfly wings. As a result they are learning more about how colours are emitted and this...

  • Blue Sky

    Artificial Intelligence

    Broadcast
    2001 (5 mins)

    Chris Melhuish is has designed robots that work in conjuction with each other to sort plates into two different colours. He has taken his inspiration from ants. They work on distributed, de-centralised...

  • Truth Will Out

    Global Warming is Caused by Human Activity

    Broadcast
    2001 (14 mins)

    scientific arguements for and against the idea that global warming is caused by human activity. Using intws with leading scientists, archive footage, touches on the wider political issues which affect the...

  • Truth Will Out

    There’s Intelligent Life elsewhere in the Universe

    Broadcast
    2001 (14 mins)

    this programme explores the arguments for and against the idea that there might be intelligent civilisation elsewhere in the universe looking at the scientific arguments, the programme examines why we are so...