Pythagoras' Trousers

The UARS Satellite and The Faulkes Telescope Project This week, Rhys chats to Chris North about the UARS satellite, how often these sorts of things fall out of the sky and how dangerous they are. Our STEM Ambassador of the Week is Alysia Battersby from the School of Biosciences at Cardiff University. Chris then talks [...]

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Synthetically Grown Meat & The Airbike This week, Julie Gould reports on technology being developed by Mark Post at Maastricht University to produce meat products from stem cells in factories. Our STEM Ambassador of the Week is Emma Lane from the Welsh School of Pharmacy. Later on, Rhys talks to Jon Meyer from EADS Innovation [...]

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Consumer Technology Roundup & Engineers doing Business On this week’s programme, Kris Sangani joins Rhys to discuss the resignation of Steve Jobs from Apple and HP’s exit from the personal computer market. Our STEM Ambassador of the Week is Liz Terry from See-Science. Later on, following Lord Alan Sugar’s comments that engineers don’t make good [...]

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The Large Hadron Collider & Jim Al-Khalili This week, in the return of Pythagoras’ Trousers, Rhys talks to Professor Lyn Evans at CERN to get an update on the current status of the search for the Higgs-Boson particle admist a summer of confusing and contrasting stories about the Large Hadron Collider. Our STEM Ambassador of [...]

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