Material World 13 September 2012: Social Media, Engineering, Voyager, Botany
Duration: 29 mins
Material World this week is full of record breakers: an experiment involving 61 million people, an update on what is happening with the furthest-flung man-made object from Earth; the Voyager space craft, the largest botanical project ever completed - the Flora of Tropical East Africa and the biggest award for engineering - The Queen Elizabeth Prize.
Material World 6 September: British Science Festival
Duration: 29 mins
Quentin Cooper features some of the highlights of the British Science Festival in Aberdeen, including research into foods that could make us feel full for longer.
Material World 30 August: Piano tuners' brains, exoplanets, and chimp justice
Duration: 29 mins
Piano Tuners' brains change over the course of their career, a solar system with two suns is discovered, geological unconformity on Mars, and chimps dont do justice.
How a child with total paralysis could kick a football using a brain-controlled suit and the study of radiation impact on animals and plants in Chernobyl and Fukushima.
Material World 10th May 2012: Alchemy, hormones and Afghan astronomy
Thu, 10 May 12
Duration: 29 mins
The influence of alchemy on modern science, how hormones can determine profit and loss in financial markets and Afghanistans schools using astronomy as a way into science.
How to keep the cars of the future moving on the roads of the future. The origins and dangers of cosmic rays, and what factors determine how you speak?
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