Dr. Mark Woods explains how the rover technologies must be partly autonomous, since the signals from Earth to Mars take too long for every command to be send from Earth.  The technologies developed for space, also have applications on Earth.

This video is part of a series of ten which look at the one of the...

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Amy is an ecologist working with the Forestry Commission. Amy is very frank in the video about her school history, describing her school reports as "less than shiny", and the video conveys how applied scientific research focuses her naturally curious nature.

In the video Amy describes how she writes computer...

Andrew Robertson is a computer engineer working at Queen Mary, University of London on music signal processing. 

This video tells the story of Sol and Ben Ryan. Sol had to have his arm amputated after he was born. When his father...

Engineer Matt Holloway and his team have designed and built a robot designed to get into small spaces that can insulate your home. A robot...

Sam Fraser is a mechanical engineer working for his PhD at Loughborough...

In this video Alice...

It took just one day at a race-track for Nina Parsons to know that she wanted to be an engineer. Five years later, she’s heading for a career in Formula One. 

While studying in his final year at the Kings School Canterbury, George Edwards has taken what started out as a AS-level project and taken it...

In this module students will study barnacle morphology, life histories and life styles as Darwin did. He based his classification and search for a common ancestor upon his studies. Recent work using genetic and molecular evidence and scanning electron microscopy shows how some of the key difficulties in drawing the...