Episodios

  • Beep! Beep! How do pagers work?
    Oct 5 2024

    Pagers have been in the news recently for all the wrong reasons. Can you remember what they were and exactly how they worked?

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    15 m
  • Fracking - love it or hate it?
    Sep 28 2024

    Will fracking save our skins by helping wean us off coal... or push us ever closer to a climate catastrophe? In this episode, we find out how it works and take a balanced look at the arguments for and against.

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    27 m
  • Catching rays - a quick guide to passive solar energy
    Sep 21 2024

    With crafty building design, you can heat your home with plentiful, free energy from the Sun. It's called passive solar energy - and here's how it works!

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    13 m
  • Pollution solutions - what can we do about water pollution?
    Sep 14 2024

    If water's the stuff of life, why do we still live in a world of littered rivers and oil spills? Today, a look at water pollution - and what we can do about it.

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    21 m
  • Eye spy electric eye - a quick introduction to LIDAR
    Sep 7 2024

    How do self-driving cars see where they're going? One way is by using a kind of light-scanning laser called LIDAR - and here's a quick look at how it works.

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    14 m
  • Mind games - The 10 greatest experiments of psychology
    Aug 31 2024

    The ideas we have about ourselves and other people are often well wide of the mark - as 10 amazing experiments from the history of psychology impressively demonstrate!

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    34 m
  • Lost and found - how GPS works
    Aug 24 2024

    Are you feeling lost? GPS "satnav" will soon put you right. Today we take a simple look at GPS, Glonass, Galileo, and the other space satellite navigation systems spinning around over our heads!

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    21 m
  • Flying through time - a brief history of flight
    Aug 17 2024

    No, the Wright Brothers didn't invent flying - the idea actually dates back through thousands of years of history. Today, we glide through the story of human flight!

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    27 m