
Design Thinking for the Human Senses | Dr Christopher J. Parker
How can we use the way that Designers think to help improve the world around us, and what role do our five main senses play in creating great experiences? Photo Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/82165563@N00/3595133519 via https://compfight.....
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Density Functional Theory: three non-technical explanations
What do six brides have to do with Density-Functional Theory? Discover it in this lecture, in which the essential ideas behind DFT are explained in three different non-technical ways. After this practical lecture, you will be able to understand the m....
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Battery Research
It is hard to believe there was a time before batteries! Batteries and supercapacitors are at the heart of electric vehicles, portable devices (watches, laptops, mobile phones) and renewable resources like wind and solar, for energy storage. Bette....
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The Dawn of the Fullerenes: A Research Adventure
When he received the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Richard E. Smalley (who also worked at Rice) and Sir Harold Kroto (at the time at the University of Sussex, UK), this was a true example of national and international scientific collabo....
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Science – Lost in Translation?
This presentation explores the way in which the ideas and advances of people like Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler to Newton and Leibniz laid the foundations of Science. The Enlightenment was a byproduct of this philosophical breakthrough and right f....
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