Astraea and Asteroids This week, we talk to ASTRAEA Programme Director, Lambert Dopping-Hepenstal, our STEM Ambassador of the Week is Karen Eaton-Thomas from Coleg Sir Gar, Chris North talks to Ed Gomez about asteroids and Kathryn Harkup tells us about Pete Medawar.
This week, Julie Gould looks at the topic of synthetic biology, our STEM Ambassador of the Week is Robert Felstead from ESPRC, Dr Tony Whitehead from the IET explains the difference between nuclear energy and nuclear weapons and Kathryn Harkup tells us about Frederick Banting.
Book Review and Prime Numbers Dominic Lenton reviews the latest science and engineering related books, our STEM Ambassador of the Week is Ryan Sharpe from Cardiff University, Vince Knight from the Cardiff University School of Mathematics talks about prime numbers and Kathryn Harkup tells us about Charles Thomas Rees Wilson.
Water Vortexes and Tim Radford Neil Monteiro answers the classic question “does water really drain in opposite directions between the northern and southern hemispheres?”, our STEM Ambassador of the Week is Gareth Jones from the Innovation Centre for Enterprise, Rhys talks to science journalist Tim Radford and Kathryn Harkup tells us about Ulf von Euler.
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