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Professor Andrew Harrison: Bringing neutrons to the masses

March 7, 2013
Neutrons can be used to answer questions in most scientific disciplines says Professor Andrew Harrison, Director of the Institut Laue-Langevin. Here he tells us all about this amazing resource What is...

Returning bumblebees to Britain’s countryside

August 10, 2012
Bumble bees are important for pollination of plants and crops, but certain species are threatened with extinction due to habitat loss. For some – like the short-haired bumble bee –...

There’s no story quite like our own – Jon Agar

July 12, 2012
There’s no story quite like our own – we catch up with an author who has tackled the history of science in the twentieth centuryScience since the beginning of the...

Exploring the world under our feet with Paul Younger

May 3, 2012
One scientist plays Indiana Jones to explore the world beneath our feetPaul Younger has photographed some of the most exceptional rocks on the planet – including some of the very...

Mary Ryan tries to save the last Flying Pencil

February 1, 2012
Drs Mary Ryan and Amy Cruickshank are in a race against time to save the last remaining intact Flying PencilDuring the Battle of Britain, a German light Bomber – a...

Award winning lecturer Chick C Wilson

November 23, 2011
This month we catch up with a chemist from Bath who’s been lecturing on misbehaving moleculesChick Wilson - from the University of Bath – has recently been awarded  the 2011...

Exploring sharks’ sens of smell with Jonathan Cox

June 1, 2010
Sharks have really sensitive noses – they can smell a drop of blood from almost 1km away – but how they’re able to do this has always been a puzzle....

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