Videos tagged with "naturalsciences"
News (Extract 1 of 3 from the Imperial College Podcast 6 February 2013)
Brian May publishes research modelling star dust in the solar system, how your whale shark snaps help track these gentle but endangered fish and news about the latest global flu outbreaks.
Baboons rest and groom each other during the heat of the day
Video taken at the Tsaobis Baboon Project in Namibia. New research from ZSL and Imperial scientists shows baboons choose who to eat with depending on their position in the pecking order. (This video has no commentary)
Light squashing physics - Interview with Professor Sir John Pendry about the theory of transformation optics
Professor Pendry talks about the latest research in transformation optics and how this theory can be used to make better airport security scanners, state-of-the-art microscopes, non-invasive medical scanners and cancer killing devices
News: Imperial College Podcast 1 August 2012
New member Kerry Noble joins the pod squad to discuss Royal Academy of Engineering fellowships, an upcoming TV programme on MDMA and a new centre for bacterial infections (Extract 1 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 1 Aug 2012)
Extinction debt in Amazon rainforest disguises pending biodiversity disaster
Dr Dan Reuman explains how a discrepancy between extinction rates and reality is disguising a catastrophic decline in biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil