On this explosive Naked Scientists, explore the science of explosions, looking at what happens when a landmine explodes and how to study shockwaves. Plus, how to make safer 'insensitive' munitions, and the 'ecology' of insurgency. Plus, how infected cells accelerate the infection rate, why your memories are stored in a grid and in Kitchen Science we show you how to do a controlled explosion in your own home!
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Graham McShane explains what happens when you blow things up, both on land and under water...
Bill Proud explains how the shockwaves created by explosions affect other materials, including human tissue...
Meera Senthilingam explores how munitions are designed and tested to ensure they only detonate when they're supposed to!
Michael Spagat discusses how insurgent events can be modelled to deal with future attacks...
Find out how to make a mini-explosion using a film canister, and find out how your explosion relates to real explosives, such as gunpowder.
How practical would it be to use a massive microwave effectively mounted on the top of a vehicle and beamed down 2 gigahertz or 1 kilowatt energy in front of the vehicle, in order to make sure that there was nothing lurking underground in front of it?
At the Manchester 1995 bombings, it seemed that windows were breaking around corners and around bends. What’s going on there?
How can you possibly take pictures at billions of frames every second?
Hi, Naked Scientists. I'm Jan from Norwich and I'm the Captain of a large oil tanker. I have a question about pigeons. We often get flocks of wild amazing pigeons land on our decks and they just stay for weeks until the crew fatten them up for the pot that is. My question is ...
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