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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...