Results
350 results found for all records.
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.
Blue Sky
Crowds
- Broadcast
- 2002 (5 mins)
How a mathematician came up with an equation that predicts crowd flow in any environment.
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...