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Ceramics | How It Works

Ceramics | How It Works

BBC Four | 2012 | 58'34''

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

Metal | How It Works

BBC Four | 2012 | 58'37''

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

Plastic | How It Works

BBC Four | 2012 | 59'01''

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

Superconductors | Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity

BBC Four | 2011 | 3'01''

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

Semiconductors and WWII | Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity

BBC Four | 2011 | 4'15''

Jim Al-Khalili explains the importance of semiconductors, particularly with regard to fighting WWII.

Secrets of the Super Elements

Secrets of the Super Elements

BBC Four | 2017 | 59'34''

In the first BBC documentary to be filmed entirely on smartphones, Mark Miodownik reveals the weird materials that have built our high-tech world.

S2E6: Invisible Worlds | Dara O’Briain’s Science Club

S2E6: Invisible Worlds | Dara O’Briain’s Science Club

Biology | BBC Two | 2013 | 58'22''

Dara and the team shine a light on some of the mysterious and usually hidden worlds surrounding us, from ou...

S2E5: Size Matters | Dara O’Briain’s Science Club

S2E5: Size Matters | Dara O’Briain’s Science Club

Biology | BBC Two | 2013 | 59'14''

Dara and the team reveal why size matters in science and how discoveries large and small are changing the way w...

Materials: How They Work

Materials: How They Work

Bonding Structure and Properties | BBC Two | 2012 | 58'57''

Materials scientist Mark Miodownik takes a look into the inner world of metals, ceramics and plastics and the microscopic structure that allows them...

Metals and Alloys | Science Fix

Metals and Alloys | Science Fix

Bonding Structure and Properties | BBC Four | 2000 | 28'33''

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.

Introduction to Covalent Bonding | GCSE Bitesize Revision

Introduction to Covalent Bonding | GCSE Bitesize Revision

Bonding Structure and Properties | BBC Two | 2010 | 4'06''

This video introduces covalent bonding, focusing on electron sharing, the use of dot and cross diagrams, and exampl...

Carbon bonds | Chemistry: A Volatile History

Carbon bonds | Chemistry: A Volatile History

Bonding Structure and Properties | BBC Four | 2010 | 3'17''

Scott Cooper was fascinated by how carbon atoms combined with other atoms, inventing the notion of ''bonds''.

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