Atomic Radio Episode 6: A Dark Art
X-ray crystallography has the power to reveal the most fundamental structures of matter, but there is a lot that the science can’t see. This...
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Where art, design and crystallography converge. ATOMIC radio brings you stories from the long relationship between the arts and the science of X-ray crystallography. X-ray crystallography, w...
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Atomic Radio Episode 5: Inside a molecule of a whale
This episode is about dramatically magnified molecules – specifically, it’s about molecular forms that have been translated into architectur...
Episode 4: A ‘Women’s Science’?
X-ray crystallography has long had a reputation for being a scientific field with a significant number of female practitioners, especially i...
Atomic Radio Episode 3: To Break Into Pieces
This episode explores the ways in which breaking something into pieces can help to understand it, from the story of crystallographer Rosalin...
Atomic Radio Episode 2: Atomic Fiction
In this episode we look in on the love affair between the science of atoms and fiction – from crystallographers’ most inventive models of th...
Atomic Radio Episode 1: Lab Life
Today the borders between the arts and sciences are becoming more porous. Some artists and designers are even leaving behind their studios f...