Grade levels: Adult

  • Ziyology: Cooperation

    Ziyology: Cooperation

    Ziya wonders if Asian elephants, fire ants, and even robots understand teamwork.

  • Penguin Weighbridge

    Penguin Weighbridge

    Peter Dann and his team of researchers have developed a unique tool to aid them in their study of world’s smallest penguins, Australia’s blue penguins.

  • Earthquake Simulator

    Earthquake Simulator

    Earthquake researchers at the University of Nevada are about to do something that only a handful of other labs in the world can do – simulate a full-scale earthquake.

  • Concept Smoke Screen

    Concept Smoke Screen

    This UK company has mastered the art of creating artificial smoke for emergency training and is now using their expertise and products to penetrate the American security market.

  • The Bloodhound Supersonic

    The Bloodhound Supersonic

    URT Group Composites built a carbon fibre chassis for a jet-powered car that will attempt to hit 1,000 miles per hour.

  • Ice Detection Fleet

    Ice Detection Fleet

    Researchers in Finland have created an icy road forecaster to help drivers during slippery conditions.

  • Swiss Bells

    Swiss Bells

    Technology is taking the world by storm but Rene Kern still makes his bells in the traditional way they have been made for 300 years.

  • Bird Buggy

    Bird Buggy

    Engineering student Andrew Gray has conceived many peculiar inventions, but his pet bird’s favourite is his robotic bird buggy.

  • Jay’s Social Experiment: Rope

    Jay’s Social Experiment: Rope

    Jay recreates an experiment from the 1930s: two ropes hanging far apart from a ceiling where people need to somehow get them close enough to be able to tie them together.

  • Knights Arrow

    Knights Arrow

    Mad Engineer Carolyn Campbell Knight is testing an insane prototype vehicle that she is hoping will smash speed records and transform aerospace science as we know it.