Pythagoras' Trousers

Gustau Catalan from The Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology tells us about new findings in the field of piezo-resistive materials, Zoe Gamble brings us another science experiment you can try at home, we meet statistician Orla Burke and Chris North talks partial solar eclipses and the latest results from the Planck satellite.

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This week, Tom Crick comments on Google’s Vint Cerf’s comments about us moving into a digital dark age, Paul Jackson from Engineering UK explains the findings of this year’s State of Engineering report, we meet space engineer Abbie Hutty from Airbus Defence & Space and one of this year’s Welsh Manufacturing Apprentice Award winners James [...]

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This week, Guillaume Meric tells us how we may be making British grey seals ill, our reporter Beth Berry visits the Galápagos tortoises at London Zoo, we meet engineer Rob Edmunds from Selex ES and Oort Kuiper performs a special rap to celebrate International Darwin Day. Click here for an extended version of Beth Berry’s [...]

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We hear from this year’s winner of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for engineering Dr Robert Langer, Neil Monteiro explains how magnets work, we meet chemical engineer Yasmin Ali and Rhys talks to science presenter Kate Bellingham.

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