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Date: 29 March 2021 - 16:09

This English language learning podcast is connecting people

Nearly 10 million people have listened to Reza Shah and Craig Wealand’s podcast, Aprender Ingles con Reza y Craig.

Tags: English, Teaching, Technology

Date: 08 January 2020 - 13:09

What can you make with algae?

Algae: you can eat, wear and build with them, and they're renewable. Professor Berat Haznedaroğlu of Boğaziҫi University in Istanbul tells us about current algae research.

Tags: Science, Technology

pipette with pink liquid over many test tubes

Date: 16 October 2019 - 09:40

How I built a virtual lab for schools

How do you teach practical science without physical equipment? Job Adeleke Oyebisi tells us how a 3D virtual laboratory works.

Tags: Science, Technology, Teaching resources

'We may reach a point where artificial intelligence could become too advanced.' Image (c) Tomasz_Mikolajczyk, used under licence and adapted from the original.

Date: 28 September 2017 - 10:00

Have robots taken over the world?

Are we already too late to save ourselves from our robot overlords? Engineer and Bulgarian FameLab 2017 contestant Veselin Rusinov weighs in.

Tags: Science, Scientific research, Technology

Date: 27 September 2017 - 14:05

What’s life like on an international space station?

The European Space Agency's Professor Mark McCaughrean explains, among other things, what ‘international’ means when you put this word in space.

Tags: Science, Scientific research, Technology

'The rise in ocean acidity levels is causing clown fish larvae to lose their ability to tell which are the best habitats for them to settle.' Image (c) nile, used under licence and adapted from the original.

Date: 18 September 2017 - 20:02

How do fish talk to each other?

There are more than 230,000 species of marine life in our ocean. So how do they communicate? We asked FameLab finalist and marine chemical ecologist Dr Mahasweta Saha.

Tags: Science, Scientific research

Floor-heating systems that send hot air into a hollow space under the floor to heat a room or bath exist since Roman times. Watercolour by General Eduard von Kallee, 1884 (c) public domain, adapted from the original: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rottenburg_Sumelocenna_by_Eduard_von_Kallee.jpg

Date: 14 September 2015 - 14:54

Eco houses are coming back after centuries

What makes a house eco-friendly and how has the technology changed over time? Dr Bilsay Pastakkaya, who received a British Council grant to work with fellow researchers in the UK, explains.

Tags: Architecture, Science, Scientific research, Arts

Date: 27 February 2015 - 09:59

Can digital art be called art?

Digital art has been around since the 1950s in the UK. We spoke to 15 Folds about the growing impact of digital art on the museum and gallery sector in the UK,

Tags: Arts, Visual Arts, Technology

Water is a precious resource in many parts of the world. Photo (c) Craig Dietrich, licensed under CC BY 2.0 and adapted from the original.

Date: 13 September 2013 - 12:09

How countries can manage water access

Access to clean water should not be taken for granted. Researcher Erin O'Donnell explains why.

Tags: Science, Scientific research

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