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TitleTopic / SubtopicLevelPresenterDate RecordedDuration (Min)Feedback
''The Great British Refurb'': Housing for a low carbon energy futureSynopsis:
Almost half of the UK 's energy is used in buildings to provide a safe, healthy, comfortable, productive and fun environment. Most future low carbon scenarios assume significant reductions in carbon emissions associated with the built environment over the next thirty years.		Environmental Science / EnergyHigh - ages 14-19Oreszczyn, TadjJun 09, 200968Feedback
A biochemist investigating Parkinson`s Disease - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
Dr Liss investigates Parkinson`s disease with genetics		Biology / BiochemistryHigh - ages 14-19Liss, Birgit14Feedback
A flash from the early UniverseSynopsis:
Light from a star that exploded 13 billion years ago has reached Earth, setting a new record for the most distant astronomical object yet observed. The characteristics of the explosion show that massive stars were already forming only 630 million years after the Big Bang.		Astronomy / CosmologyHigh - ages 14-19Tanvir, NialNov 02, 20098Feedback
A nano-sized gas sensor 5 - from Vega.org/ukSynopsis:
The CRPGL group is a newly formed lab in Luxembourg. Within the project their role is to start looking at `scale up`, plasma treatment at larger scales than is possible in the other labs, coupled with a battery of different sample testing techniques.		Chemistry / NanotechnologyHigh - ages 14-19Lippmann, GabrielMar 21, 20072Feedback
Abolishing Time?Synopsis:
David Gross's Nobel Prize was for work on the 'strong' force which acts between quarks inside the atom. Now he works on string theory, hoping to understand how all the forces of nature could be united. He believes the next steps may involve throwing out all our ideas about both space and time. But he makes young theoretician Itzhak Fouxon, who shares these views, work hard to justify them.		Physics / ForcesHigh - ages 14-19Gross, DavidOct 23, 20096Feedback
Alexander Müller - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
K. Alexander Müller shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with J. Georg Bednorz in 1987 ''for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials''. At the age of 9 Müller was given a radio (a single vacuum tube receiver) by his mother and this initiated his interest in science. His teacher encouraged him to take up physics to understand how the radio worked! Muller talks about his religious belief and when asked the question – how did winning the Nobel Prize effect his life he says he has been able to extend his love of old cars!		Physics / Condensed MatterHigh - ages 14-19Müller, AlexanderMar 19, 20046Feedback
All about conic sectionsSynopsis:
This is a fully interactive program allowing many useful ways of investigating conic sections both visually and algebraically. It comes with a full set of explanatory notes for both teacher and pupil.		Mathematics / TrigonometryHigh - ages 14-19Taylor, Keith60Feedback
Ancient tsunamisSynopsis:
The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was not the first of its kind, according to research in Nature. Two groups of scientists have found sedimentary evidence for possible predecessors to the 2004 event in...		Environmental Science / ClimateHigh - ages 14-19McAdoo, BrianJan 06, 200910Feedback
Antarctic Auto-Sub Design - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
Designing an automated under-ice submarine.		Engineering / GeneralHigh - ages 14-19Miles Pebody, Miles14Feedback
Anti-oxidantsSynopsis:
Anti-oxidants and their importance in diet		Biology / BiochemistryHigh - ages 14-19Hill, RyanNov 09, 200910Feedback
Antikythera Mechanism Part 1Synopsis:
New interpretations of the Antikythera Mechanism reveal that it could be used to predict eclipses, and that it had a dial recording the dates of the ancient Olympiads. The 2,000-year-old box of intricate gearwork provides a glimpse of the engineering prowess of the Hellenic world. The team discuss their results here.\n		Astronomy / Solar SystemHigh - ages 14-19Jones, AlexanderDec 11, 20097Feedback
Antimatter - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
What is antimatter? What does it tell us about the structure of our universe? Can we ever detect it?		Physics / ParticleHigh - ages 14-19Various, Presenters29Feedback
Architects of the Microcosmos - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
In thistalk Harry Kroto explains that molecules have structures that are every bit as real in the mind of the chemists who create them, as are the edifices of brick, steel and concrete designed by architects and built by engineers.		Chemistry / PhysicalHigh - ages 14-19Kroto, Harry58Feedback
Architecture in NanospaceSynopsis:
A brief history of carbon-60 and its developments into useful materials. How can chemistry help move us towards a more sustainable existence.		Chemistry / NanotechnologyHigh - ages 14-19Kroto, HarryJan 29, 200727Feedback
Atmospheric Chemistry - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
In this interview Sherwood Rowland talks about Ozone depletion and the effect of CFCs on Ozone and Global Warming (Greenhouse Warming where infrared radiation is trapped). He explains the chemistry of Ozone depletion and the history of what led to the banning of CFCs starting in 1974 with his joint first publication on the subject with Mario Molina which advocated banning CFCs. This led in 1995 to a ban on CFCs being used in aerosol sprays (limited to the State of Oregon) and a year later a total ban of the use of CFCs in aerosol sprays. He says that the ban was brought about by public coverage of the damage to the Ozone i.e. Newspaper coverage (over 400 newspapers in the US alone covered the story).		Chemistry / InorganicHigh - ages 14-19Rowland, SherwoodMar 20, 200642Feedback
Battery Technology - from Volta to the 21st Century.Synopsis:
Mitchell Herring presents on battery technology from Volta to the 21st century.\n		Chemistry / EnergyHigh - ages 14-19Herring, MitchellApr 22, 20096Feedback
Big Bang- A tour of the Large Hadron Collider - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
Dr Brian Cox takes us on a tour of the Large Hadron Collider where the conditions moments after the Big Bang are to be recreated.		Physics / ParticleHigh - ages 14-19Cox, Brian4Feedback
Bio-fuels and solar energySynopsis:
A comparison of bio-fuels and solar energy. Examples include algae-based oil and solar panels.		Chemistry / EnergyHigh - ages 14-19Nielsen, AlexisNov 12, 200911Feedback
Biofuel TechnologySynopsis:
Miles Bradshaw presents on the present and future of biofuel technology.\n		Chemistry / EnergyHigh - ages 14-19Bradshaw, MilesApr 25, 200912Feedback
Bucky Balls - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
The Buckyball, or C60 molecule was discovered by accident (in the lab) while trying to understand the chemistry between the stars in the Interstellar Medium ISM. The discovery led to the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1996. Here we look at the structure of C60 and make a molecular model.		Chemistry / OrganicHigh - ages 14-19Hare, JonathanMar 21, 20078Feedback
Building Believable Synthetic CharactersSynopsis:
The scope of the research are Human Computer Interactions (HCI), non verbal communication, effective computing and believable characters.\n		Science, General / ComputingHigh - ages 14-19Shaarni, AhmadApr 06, 20099Feedback
Building Services Engineer - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
How science and art are used to design modern buildings.		Engineering / GeneralHigh - ages 14-19McGowan, Sara14Feedback
C60, the Celestial Sphere that Fell to Earth - from Vega.org.ukSynopsis:
In 1985 an experiment, designed to unravel the carbon chemistry in Red Giant Stars, revealed the existence of C60 Buckminsterfullerene (the third allotropic form of carbon). The story of the discovery and the way its symmetry relates to the natural and physical world are described. This elegant cage molecule which has the same shape as a football heralds a new era of novel 21st Century Materials.		Chemistry / PhysicalHigh - ages 14-19Kroto, HarryMar 20, 199554Feedback
Carbon SequestrationSynopsis:
Why is carbon sequestration so important?		Chemistry / InorganicHigh - ages 14-19Serniak, KyleNov 13, 200912Feedback
Catalysts and collaborationsSynopsis:
Catalysts facilitate almost every reaction in the human body. They also enable us to make all kinds of molecules in the lab, and few people have contributed more to this field than Richard Schrock. Can he help Norweigan student Christer Øpstad to catalyse reactions with his carotenoid molecules. And what will happen when another young chemist, Jeffrey Lancaster, proposes a collaboration with this Nobel Prize winning chemist?		Chemistry / OrganicHigh - ages 14-19Schrock, RichardSep 24, 20096Feedback

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