Subjects: General

  • 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.

  • Lake Kivu

    Lake Kivu

    This lake in Rwanda could turn deadly at any second, thanks to deadly gases created by thousands of years of underground volcanic activity. Engineers are racing against the clock to harness the gases to produce much-needed electricity.

  • 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.