Ceramics | How It Works
Professor Mark Miodownik looks at how simple clay, sand and rock can be changed into pottery, glass and concrete to build cities and transform the wa...
Metal | How It Works
Mark Miodownik traces the history of our love affair with metal. He investigates metals at the atomic level and sees how metal crystals can be grown to ...
Plastic | How It Works
Mark Miodownik shows how plastics have brought luxury to the masses and reveals how the next generation will take its inspiration from nature and coul...
Superconductors | Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity
Jim Al-Khalili looks at how, in 1986, IBM researchers discovered a breakthrough regarding superconductivity in cera...
Semiconductors and WWII | Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity
Jim Al-Khalili explains the importance of semiconductors, particularly with regard to fighting WWII.
Secrets of the Super Elements
In the first BBC documentary to be filmed entirely on smartphones, Mark Miodownik reveals the weird materials that have built our high-tech world.
Dara and the team shine a light on some of the mysterious and usually hidden worlds surrounding us, from ou...
Dara and the team reveal why size matters in science and how discoveries large and small are changing the way w...
Materials scientist Mark Miodownik takes a look into the inner world of metals, ceramics and plastics and the microscopic structure that allows them...
Mark Loughlin looks at the science of forensics while in the studio we make a motor and Alison Chappell takes apart a selection of drills.
This video introduces covalent bonding, focusing on electron sharing, the use of dot and cross diagrams, and exampl...
Scott Cooper was fascinated by how carbon atoms combined with other atoms, inventing the notion of ''bonds''.
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