Exploring the Universe with the world's largest radio telescope
The Square Kilometre Array: a £1.2 billion global science project to build the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope. Presented...
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National Physical Laboratory Podcast
Our lecture series from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), which is the UK's National Measurement Institute and is a world-leading centre of excellence in developing and applying the mo...
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Seeking the TRUTHS about climate change
An update on the vital work being carried out at NPL to improve traceability and reduce uncertainties associated with climate forecasts. Pre...
The Challenge of Implementing the GUM and its Supplements
The view from inside an industrial laboratory by Steve Sidney, National Laboratory Association, South Africa Recorded 8th March 2011
Charles Galton Darwin and the NPL at war
Presented by Seton Bennett Recorded 24th February 2011
Emerging technologies based on multiferroic materials
Possible applications of multiferroic materials by Dr Melvin Vopson, NPL Recorded 24th February 2011
Personal Wireless Communications
An Industry in Transition; the future advances of tele-communication by Dr Walter Tuttlebee, Mobile VCE Recorded 19th November 2010
Structured organic cyanine dye thin films
For applications in photovoltaics and photonics. Presented by Roland Hany and Jakob Heier from EMPA Recorded 4th November 2010
Building on the Building Blocks of Life
A presentation on Gel-Phase Nanotechnology by Prof. Rein Ulijn from the University of Strathclyde.
CLARREO
Decadal Change Accuracy for Space Based Reflected Solar Spectra, Emitted Infrared Spectra, and Radio Occultation
Evil on the Internet
Live examples of malicious sites, how they work, and what little we currently know about the criminals who operate them. By Richard Clayton
Linking clocks with optical fibres
How to use light for frequency comparisons over hundreds of kilometers by Giuseppe Marra
Scratching the Surface
Measuring the Wear and Frictional Response of Surfaces by Mark Gee
From protein folding to nanoscale design
Taking the Nature's path to nanostructured materials by Max Ryadnov
FIRST Explorer - A space-borne low-frequency radio observatory using passive formation flying
"FIRST Explorer -A space-borne low-frequency radio observatory using passive formation flying" - by Jan Bergman & Prof. Alistair Forbes on 1...
Drunken Walks on a Nanoscale Tightrope: Excitons on Carbon Nanotubes
'Drunken Walks on a Nanoscale Tightrope: Excitons on Carbon Nanotubes' by Jeremy Allam, recorded on 18th February 2010. Queen's Printer and...
The physics of perception: measurement of naturalness
'The physics of perception: measurement of naturalness' by Teresa Goodman, recorded on January 28th 2010. Queen's Printer and Controller of...
Ambient Mass Spectrometry: The future for instant chemical analysis
'Ambient Mass Spectrometry: The future for instant chemical analysis' by Felicia Green recorded on January 28th 2010. Queen's Printer and Co...
Combating cancer in the third millennium - the contribution of medical physics
'Combating cancer in the third millennium - the contribution of medical physics' by Prof Steve Webb, recorded on December 17th 2009. Queen's...
The story of Packet Switching
In the mid-late 1960s, a team at the National Physical Laboratory invented the means by which all data is transferred across networks. This...
David Yates talks about 'Scrapbook'
David Yates, who worked at NPL from 1962 to 1992, talks about 'Scrapbook' Queen's Printer and Controller of HMSO. 2009 Included audiovisual...