2005 Series Oct-Dec

Chris Smith

Kat Arney

Stretching our grey matter this week is developmental biologist Dr Adrian Pini from Guy's, King's and St. Thomas's Hospital, London, who describes how our brain grows, how our brain works, and how it can become damaged, and Dr Huseyin Mehmet from Imperial College London, who discusses the potential application of stem cells in repairing central nervous system damage. Also in the studio is Tom Smith from Cambridge University, who has designed a new water pump that could help thousands of people in the developing world, and Derek and Dave perform a vanishing act in Kitchen Science.

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Chris Smith

Kat Arney

In this show Dr Symon Cotton from Astron Clinica joins us to discuss how Raman Spectroscopy can be used to non-invasively diagnose malignant melanoma, Professor Russell Cowburn from Imperial College London describes how laser scatter effects can be used to fingerprint a banknote, Sam Reay chops his way through a 3-inch block of concrete to highlight the physics of Kung Fu, and Dr Uwe Bergmann describes how synchrotronic x-rays are helping him to read the 1000 year old Archimedes Palimpsest.

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