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Hydrogen - the fuel of the future?

How simple algebra can be used to investigate cubes and other polyhedra up to icosahedra.

How simple algebra can be used to investigate cubes and other polyhedra up to icosahedra.

Bill uses slow motion video to show the ingenious engineering design of the apparently simple tab of a pop can.

Rob Mueller, Lead Senior Technologist at NASA Swampworks answers some questions about his project to 3D print on Mars and other space objects! Interview by Philip Schlenoff at GEOSET Studios before the Stacking Layers II conference http:/stackinglaye....

A look into the research of biochemist Ceri Harrop, who specialises in respiratory medicine and developing new treatments for people with breathing difficulties.nAs part of her research at the University of Manchester, Ceri meets with athlete Wayne A....

In designing an object an engineer must choose the proper material. Never is this more important than in the 'black box' flight data recorder.

Professor Sir Harry Kroto shows local schoolchildren in Sheffield how to build a buckyball

An Internet Buckyball workshop to 80 young children in Iceland which worked extremely well. It was the first test of the FSU Internet GEO project.

We see smaller and smaller objects through naked eye and microscopes, from hair to atoms.

Anjali Nayar visited a pioneering project in Madagascar that's aiming to protect one of the country's few remaining forests. It's hoped that projects like this will help curb global warming. But first, these projects must overcome the poverty and pol....

To engineer an object means to make choices. Bill illustrates how the choice of having a single heating element made an engineer find a creative way to pump water with no moving parts.