Dec 21, 2016
Since the 1960’s man has been sending missions to Mars. Some successes, some failures. This hasn’t stopped scientists trying to explore this incredible red planet. The question though is, how do they design devices to survive millions of kilometres travel to planet Mars (it’s 54.6 million km) and yet be sensitive...
Jul 27, 2016
What's the use of just one photon, the smallest bit of light? And what does it take to study it? We speak to Joelle Boutari about her work in quantum photonics where she's harnessing single photons, trying to understand their beheaviour better, all part of paving the way to better understand quantum features - the weird...
Jul 8, 2016
How can you spot what's happening in space billions of light years away from right here on Earth? Dr Garret Cotter works in the boundary of astronomy and high energy particle physics: gamma ray astronomy. Researchers use the Earth's atmosphere like a giant high energy particle detector to record particles that have...