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The Future of Failure

Create the Future: An Engineering Podcast by Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

Dec 27, 202432:54Technology

What happens when a bridge collapses? Or a space mission ends in tragedy? You call in forensic engineers to investigate. Host Anna Ploszajski contemplates the nature of failure with Dr Sean Brady , who uses scientific an...

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The Future of Failure is an episode from Create the Future: An Engineering Podcast by Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. What happens when a bridge collapses? Or a space mission ends in tragedy? You call in forensic engineers to investi...

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