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  • Bang Goes The Theory Series 6

    Episode 3

    Broadcast
    2012 (28 mins)

    In the latest of the series, Liz finds out how safe digital storage like DVDs and memory sticks are, and whether The Cloud answers all our problems. Dallas and Jem see what it takes to properly wipe your...

  • Blue Sky

    Staring

    Broadcast
    2002 (4 mins)

    Is the sense of being stared at a real phenomenon?

  • Blue Sky

    Muscles

    Broadcast
    2002 (5 mins)

    How muscles could be synthesised for use in engineering.

  • Blue Sky

    Big Bang

    Broadcast
    2002 (4 mins)

    Invention to tell how galaxies were formed by reconstructing very blurred images. Invention is now being developed for use in breast cancer diagnosis & CCTV criminal identification.

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    Crowds

    Broadcast
    2002 (5 mins)

    How a mathematician came up with an equation that predicts crowd flow in any environment.

  • 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...