We have all heard the phrase 'it's not exactly rocket science' and most people believe that being a rocket scientist is difficult and complex. However, the science ...
Geology no longer is the study of the Earth. Rocks are found throughout the universe on other planets, asteroids and comets and as debris ranging in size down ...
From the discovery of DNA to the identification of water on Mars, lab-based spectroscopy is fundamental to understanding the chemical composition of matter.
The Department of Earth Sciences at UCL lies in the heart of London on the Bloomsbury campus. Visit us: http://www.es.ucl.ac.uk Our research programme ...
Unmanned spacecraft have visited the other planets of our Solar System (and some of their moons), beaming back pictures of varied and distinctive worlds - but ...
Naomi Oreskes is professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University, and an internationally ...
Dr Gerhard Kminek from the European Space Agency talks about the importance of planetary protection in space missions. To find out more about Imperial ...
New research has revealed that fewer than predicted planets may be capable of harbouring life because their atmospheres keep them too hot. To find out more ...
In this episode of 'Space Explained', Dr Simon Foster, a Solar Physicist at Imperial College London, explains whether alien life could theoretically exist on other ...
A Senior Nasa Scientist Has Warned That Earth Is "Totally Unprepared" For A Surprise Asteroid Strike Nasa Says "Potentially Hazardous Asteroids" Have Less ...
Unmanned spacecraft have visited the other planets of our Solar System (and some of their moons), beaming back pictures of varied and distinctive worlds - but ...
We know that the sun is made of hydrogen and helium – but how do we know this without ever having been there? In the third episode of our new 'Space ...
How the Earth works Earth System 0. Earth from Space (Intro) Earth System 1. Hurricanes Earth System 2. Vapour in the Atmosphere Earth System 3. Antarctica: ...
In this hilarious and thought-provoking talk, National Geographic Explorer and standup comic Ella Al-Shamahi explains why a huge part of the planet's potential ...
Hear from the Programme Director, Professor Geraint Thomas, on why UCL should be your first choice for studying Natural Sciences via our innovation ...
Stephanie Pau has recently founded Citizen Inventor, a UK citizen science community open to all. Steph holds a master in electronics and electrical engineering ...
This film is taken from Reach Out CPD, an online primary science CPD resource which is free to all teachers in the UK http://www.reachoutcpd.com.
Dr David Clements (Imperial College London) and Dr Ian Crawford (Birkbeck College) debate the issue in one of the Big Questions debates at Imperial College ...
NASA discovers more about Mars' ancient atmosphere by studying a dune system, which is named in honour of an Imperial Fellow. To find out more please visit ...
Dark energy and dark matter pervade the Universe. Professor Alan Heavens looks at how we find their properties and tests whether Einstein's gravity theory ...
According to data gathered by NASA's Kepler space observatory, there might be over two billion planets in the Milky Way galaxy that could potentially support ...
Alumni of Birkbeck's Department of Earth and Planetary Science returned to their alma mater recently to experience the brand new petrology lab. From its fleet of ...
Planetary scientist Dr. Allan Treiman of the Lunar and Planetary Institute discusses the success and challenges of the first four years of the Curiosity rover's ...
Felt this was relevant enough to Mckennas take on the politics of substances so to give a modern 2016 update on the current political and scientific climate.
How are the oceans changing and what role do they play in climate change? John Marshall is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography in the ...
Held at UCL on Tuesday 28 January 2014 This presentation from Michael Grubb, Chair of Energy and Climate Policy, University of Cambridge Centre for ...
Dr. Stephen Mackwell, LPI Director, takes questions from the scientific community on this year's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Topics covered ...
With so much of our modern world and its infrastructure reliant on space assets – from navigation to telecommunications, earth observation, environmental ...
A lecture given by the 2013 winner of the Isaac Newton medal, Professor Sir John Pendry, Imperial College London, and chaired by Professor Roy Sambles, ...
Planetary scientist Dr. Virgil L. (“Buck”) Sharpton of the Lunar and Planetary Institute discusses the process of impact cratering and how this process manifests ...
A team of researchers has gathered compelling evidence of yet another massive lake resting beneath Antarctica's frozen surface. Over the years, scientists and ...
Pluto may harbour a slushy water ocean beneath its most prominent surface feature, known as the "heart". This could explain why part of the heart-shaped ...
Lecture date: 2011-05-20 Beyond Entropy Roundtable The team behind the exhibition's Time Machine – Prof. Andrew Jaffe, Cosmologist, Imperial College ...
Neptune's rotational axis (28.3°) is a little more tilted than Earth's (23.5°) and, because it has no solid surface, its equatorial atmosphere spins more slowly (18 ...
MSE101 Mathematics - Data Analysis Lecture 1, segment 3 - Curve Sketching Course webpage with notes: http://dyedavid.com/mse101 Dr Sam Cooper, ...
2014 Fall Meeting Section: Planetary Sciences Session: Rosetta 2014 II Title: First Results at 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko With the Rosetta Plasma ...
On 11th July over 300 school children had the chance to meet a real-life astronaut as the Head of NASA, Charles Bolden, came to Imperial College London.
Even in our wildest dreams none of us on the New Horizons team really expected the July 2015 flyby of Pluto to produce such riches: water ice mountains as big ...
In the theoretical sciences, it is commonly assumed that the role of gravity is settled. But as Richard Feynman observed, “There is no model of the theory of ...
Astronomer Dr. Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute discusses the scientific community's attempts to work with Hollywood in an effort to make movies more ...
The Amazing Quantum Worlds is an outreach show performed by students from the Controlled Quantum Dynamics group at imperial College London. The show ...
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/30/Lord_Martin_Rees_Life_and_the_Cosmos Cambridge University cosmologist Lord Martin Rees describes the two ...
"The goal, ultimately, is just to manage our world better," to have an "integrated system for the environment that is driven by what local communities want and ...
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