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163 results found for all records.
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...
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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...
Opening Up Information, Culture, Technology & Sociology
Well Connected
- Broadcast
- 2001 (5 mins)
The programme examines how technology and the Internet can be used as a tool of empowerment for citizens.The programme took examples of two stories - Jonah Peretti’s emails to Nike requesting a customised...
Opening Up Information, Culture, Technology & Sociology
Well Connected
- Broadcast
- 2001 (5 mins)
The programme examines how technology and the internet can be used to help musicians. The programme tells the stories of two individuals - Malcolm Lindsay is a classical composer who uses ‘score...
Blue Sky
Dancing in Space
- Broadcast
- 2001 (5 mins)
How dances could hold the key to recover after paralysis.
Blue Sky
Spaced Out
- Broadcast
- 2001 (284 mins)
How artists might help mathematicians see things differently.
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The Crocodile Cure
- Broadcast
- 2001 (5 mins)
How a TV producer’s interest in crocodiles initiated a discovery of potentially huge medical value.
Blue Sky
Dirty Business
- Broadcast
- 2001 (4 mins)
Germs are bad for us, aren’t they? A bacteriologist explains why it seemed heretical to suggest otherwise, and why that was exactly what he began to do.
Blue Sky
Running Rockets
- Broadcast
- 2001 (5 mins)
The way we get into space is based on 100 year old missile technology. A space scientist is considering an ambitious alternative. Could science fiction become science fact?