All Episodes
Material World — 149 episodes
Inside Science:Bovine TB:Coral Sunscreen;Space Junk
Material: Ancient Horses; Uncertainty; Cutlery and Taste
MRC; Snails; Applause
Digital spying;Dornier 17;Germination;Cheetahs
Cheltenham Science Festival
Multiverses;Culture-driven Evolution;Lee Smolin-Time
Tornado;Tree health;Vaccine;Radar
Quantum computer; Ancient water; Stem cells; Dambusters
EU science funding;Pear-shaped nuclei;Hyades
Bees;Petal Shapes: Heart gene therapy
Bovine TB; Big Cat; Shark teeth
Iranian earthquake;Zebrafish;Curiosity driver Paolo Bellutta
Science publishing, Transatlantic turbulence, Rapid evolution
Chemical weapons,Nuclear weapons,BRAIN,Foot and Mouth
Edinburgh's International Science Festival
Planck, Elusive Giant Squid, Emotive words
Clay on Mars, Neanderthals, Cholera,Tapeworms
Deer,Herschel,Facial contrast,Potatoes
Junk DNA, Mine fires, Homer
Material: DNA,Identical Twins,Dark Energy, Viruses
Material: Coronavirus, Horsemeat, Blackbirds, DNA
Material: TB, SATELLITES, LAKE ELLSWORTH, ANTARCTIC BASE
Material: Rail, Radioactive, Universe, Quantum Biology.
Material: Noise & plane design, Birdflu, Dogs, Mackerel
Material: Smog,Exploding Stars,Animal Replacement
Material: Kepler,Arctic Drilling,Apophis,Brain Science
Material: Norovirus, superheroes and army underpants.
Material 27 Dec 12: Unsung Heroes of Science
Material: IQ tests, life on Mars, Santa up a chimney
Material World::Prizes, Hobbits, archaeology+maths.
Material World: Climate Talks; James Watson
Material: Energy;Rats;Olive Oil;Romantic Chemistry
Material: Books, Intelligent roads, Old computers 22 Nov 12
Material World; Wood burning for energy;Super Symmetry;;Drones;Sweat
Material: Bird deaths, Coffee, Ancient Tools
Material World 1st Nov: Trees,1000 Genomes,Energy
Material World 25 Oct: Earthquake, Ancient Tablets, See-through Soil
Material World 18th Oct: Badgers, Ants and New Planets
Material World 11th Oct: Nobel Prize Winners
Material World 4th October 2012: Retractions
Material World 27th September 2012: Gravity Fields
Material World 20 September 2012: Climate computer modelling, flies and bumblebees
Material World 13 September 2012: Social Media, Engineering, Voyager, Botany
Material World 6 September: British Science Festival
Material World 30 August: Piano tuners' brains, exoplanets, and chimp justice
Material World 23rd August: Mars; bomb-proof make-up; toilets of the future; hearing loss & bird song
Material World 16th August 2012: Parkinson's disease, brain controlled suit
Material World: 06 Aug 12: NASA's Curiosity
Material World 2nd Aug 2012: Phonics and neuroscience, mythical networks, and do animal have empathy?
Material World 26th July 2012: Simulating a whole bacterium, UK tsunamis, melting Greenland ice, and herd behaviour.
Material World 19th July 2012: Crowd funding
Material World: Latest Airport Security Tech
Material World: 5th July 2012: Higgs-like particle discovered and exciting new science presented at the Royal Society
Material World: 28th June: Science publishing, science in social policy, science wins prizes and science in packaging
Material: Material World 21 JUN 2012, SWYTBAS, The Final
Material World:14th June The Influence of Mathematician Alan Turing, and more from ‘So you want to be a Scientist’.
Material World 7th June 2012: Legionnaires’, Venus and stripes
Material World 31st May 2012: 80 years of Neutrons & the horrible noises we love to hate
Material World 24th May 2012: Perceptions of energy generation, light loving bugs, new faster chips, & not predicting earthquakes
Material World 17th May 2012: Pollen and war crimes, art and emotion science versus politics and underground railways
Material World 10th May 2012: Alchemy, hormones and Afghan astronomy
Material World 3rd May 2012: North Sea wind power, Bending Gamma rays horrid noises and how to hack.
Material World 26th April 2012: Intelligent travel, cosmic rays and voices.
Material World 19th April: Breast cancer breakthrough, maths of politics, CT scan, SYWTBAS
Material World 12th April :
Material world 05 Apr Strings, spies and science
MW 29 Mar;Gas Bacteria, Geoengineering, SYWTBAS
Material World 22 Mar: auctions, marine pharmaceuticals, sleep
MW 15 Mar; Hominin puzzle, Art, Robots and Avatars
MW 8 Mar; Antarctic, Meteors, Noises, Starquakes
Material World 01 March Science advisers, lab animals, oldest forest
Material World 23 Feb Y-chromosome, Kilogram, Neutrinos, Fuel
Material World 16 Feb: Star on the brink of a supernova explosion; Our global water footprint; New Elizabethans
Material World 9 Feb Freud, Climate, Vostok, LARES
Material World 2nd Feb 2012: A genome ethics survey, having friends takes brains, emotional art and triggering an ice age
Material: 26 Jan The next flu pandemic, an Arctic bulge, faces and voices and the Panama Canal.
Material World: 19 January. 3D Maps, Darwin, Do Stripes Make You Thinner and the Kharma Empire.
Material 12 Jan 12 Computers, Dark matter, Pests
Material 05 Jan 12 End of the World
MW 29 Dec 11: SYWTBAS judges' meeting
New planets, brain chips, amateur scientists, Christmas trees and robins - 22 Dec 11
The Higgs, MPs Meet Scientists, Moon art – 15 Dec 11
Rare Metals, Collecting Carbon, Strange Shrimp - 08 Dec 11
Permafrost; Space Worms; DNA Barcoding - 01 Dec 11
Material: 24 Nov 11: Scientists on risk, Insect flight
MW: Geo-engineering; Mars; Canary Island 17 Nov 11
Fracking; Hidden Heroes; SYWTBAS? Periodic Knitting
Fission at Fukushima; Airships – The Future of Air Travel; Legend of the Sunstone
Material World at the National Maritime Museum.
EU stem cell ruling, The Population Process, Viruses, SYWTBAS?
Stem cells, Black Death,Lawrence M Krauss and KickSat project
Nobel Prizes 2011
'So you want to be a Scientist?', Neutrinos faster than light and Catalytic clothing
Ehsan Masood on biodiversity, slippery surfaces, drugs from ladybirds and fire.
Quentin reports from the British Science Festival in Bradford on new discoveries in science.
Quentin on human ancestry, beautiful genomes and gold from the sky.
Hand axes, New lithium batteries, Cloning wildcats, The moon
Oldest fossils, Tracking cholera, Playing with uncertainty and Counting species.
Jaws, Plesiosaurs, Time perception, Surgery, Bees
Material: Mob psychology, multiple sclerosis, chimp communication and shrunken heads.
Material: Quentin on Milgram’s Obedience Studies, the science behind illusioneering and our lopsided moon.
Material World: Searching for Higgs, badger cull, diamonds, music and neuroscience
Material World
Material World: Hidden landscapes, Mythical monsters and Tibetan singing bowls.
Krill, Royal Society sensations, Science of body art
Climate models, Early universe, Happy faces, Mobile Phones
Material World: City stress, Darwin's library, science/health reporting
Material World: Ocean Drilling, Future technology for air planes, Dreams and Oxford English Dictionary
Heart, Neolithic Building Boom, Amber
Material: new E-coli strain, Teeth, science innovation, zero gravity
Icelandic eruption, Electron shape, Urban gardens
Smallpox, Colour photograph, Higgs Higgs!
Material: New epoch, Fungi discovery, Domesday Project
Einstein proved right; how fat can cause dementia; the science of tornadoes; and mapping English orchards
Ocean tea, Shuttle search for antimatter, Cosmati Pavement, Robot ethics
Material World: Deepwater Horizon, Chernobyl, Penguin clean up, Saturn
Material World: Fossils, Biofab, Harrison Timekeeping, Gagarin
Material World: Pre-pregnancy screening, mathematics of Life, scientific travel archive
Material: Japan, Beaked whales, Birds, Sergei Korolyov
Material: Japan, Penguins, Films, Sports Science 24 Mar 11
Material: Japan Nuclear Power Crisis
Material: Space, Daffodils, Watt, Ig Nobel 110.03.11
Material: Women, Meteorites, Squirrels 03 03 11
Material: Earthquake, Squirrels, Carbon animals, RHS 24 Feb 11
Material: Human impact on flooding, Van Gogh’s fading paint, Tempel 1, Solar flare 17 Feb 11
Material: Science in Egypt, Marine Invaders, Climate change, Flea jumping
Material: Cyclone,Extrasolar Sys,Ramsay,Lake Vostok
Material: Oldest galaxy; Living art; Back to bed bugs & Chemical engineering
Material: UK Swine flu autopsies, Genetic study of bed bugs, Science out of the classroom 20 Jan 11
Material: Medical Research bureaucracy, Corruption and Earthquakes, Music Moods
Material: International Year of Chemistry
Material: So You Want to be a Scientist catch-up 30 Dec 10
Material: New Hominid; Einstein; Cooking for Geeks 23 Dec 10
Material: Science and Disasters, Deepwater Horizon, Haiti Earthquake 16 Dec 2010
Material: Drugs policy, Space travel and Genome sequencers
Material: Cold weather, African self-sufficiency, Maple seed flight, Red dwarfs; 02 Dec 10
Material: Recession and a warming world, Liquid Universe, Stranded cetaceans, Alan Turing; 25 Nov 10
Material: fighting crop disease, anti-matter, Tycho Brahe 18 Nov 2010
Material: Large Hadron Collider, snow and global warming, invisible material 11 Nov 2010
Material: Space Station; Dragonflies; Turbine 04 Nov 2010
Material: Indonesia Tsunami; Merapi Volcano; Space Tourism; First Electronics 28 Oct 10
Material: Science & The Spending Review 21 Oct 2010
Material: Stem cell trials, Archaeology & human remains, Interplanetary encounters: 14 Oct 2010
Material: Nobel Prizes, the Sun & climate 07 Oct 2010
Material: Gliese 581 g, Dry water, Mobile and internet use, Crick 30 Sep 2010
Material: Sept 23rd 2010
Material: So You Want To Be A Scientist Final
Material: 9th September 2010
Material: Cluster Mission, SYWTBAS Update, Bioconcrete, Fruit Flies 02 Sep 10