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In an interview with Sir Harry Kroto, former UK Minister for Science Tony Benn discusses the interaction between scientists and politicians. Benn, having spent a life-time as a leading politician closely...
Helen Sharman, the UK’s first female astronaut, gives an account of her personal experiences of life in space, using models and film to illustrate the key scientific concepts involved in space flight....
John Murrell of the University of Sussex discusses the basic physical principles relating to the gaseous, liquid and solid states, using models and demonstrations. He notes phase changes and subtle features...
Chris Freeman, the founder and first director of the Science Policy Research Unit, introduces John Bernal, the father of the protein crystallography techniques that enabled the double helix structure of DNA...
John Maynard Smith describes the way flight developed in the animal kingdom: the fossil record indicates that the long tails which stabilised the flight of the first birds evolved into shorter, less stable...
A Royal Institution Discourse in which Harold Kroto discusses the discovery of C60 buckminsterfullerene in 1985 in an experiment designed to unravel the carbon chemistry in Red Giant stars. The elegant cage...
For thousands of years scientists knew of only two types of carbon: diamond and graphite. In 1990 a third form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, C60, was discovererd and has revolutionised chemistry. Tells...
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