Backstage Science

Hidden away in a lab near Oxford is a beer cooler which plays an important role in weather forecasting and measuring climate change. The modified c...

Stan Botchway explains how lasers have a dual purpose when studying DNA - doing the damage and then monitoring the repair process.

Dr Botchway wor...

Creating and studying proteins is a complicated business - in this video we take you behind the scenes with people who do it.

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The Eagle Nebula and its Pillars of Creation are some of the most recognisable features in deep space.

In this video: Mike Merrifield, Pete Lawren...

Just when you thought The Professor could not get more excited about plastic bottles....

During our visit to Brazil, we stumbled over this interes...

Endre Szemerédi wins the mathematics equivalent of the Nobel Prize - the 2012 Abel Prize. He wins 6,000,000 Norwegian Kroner for his troubles.

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A number so epic it will collapse your brain into a black hole! Yet Tony Padilla and Matt Parker take the risk of discussing its magnitude. Watch w...

A long-awaited update to our Zirconium video, made possible by two samples donated to The Professor (thanks to company Lipmann Walton and technicia...

A little video I made about the "spirit" of our Backstage Science videos - going behind every door and finding out what's going on. More Backstage ...

The Vibration Test facility at RAL Space allows scientists to simulate the rocky ride into space atop a rocket.

Includes test footage for the MIRI...

Professor Sean Langridge works on nanoscience at ISIS, using the facility's powerful neutron beams.

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Some extra questions and answers with Anna "Ania" Paradowska.

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Beams of neutrons can be used to make important discoveries in the world of nanoscience.

Here we explore three instruments (and beamlines) at the ...

Philip King from the Muon Group at ISIS tells us a little more about himself and his work.

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Octopus is a laser system at the Central Laser Facility.

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The laser facility is part of...

Bambara Groundnuts grow mainly in Africa. Sean Mayes says they're an "underutilised crop" and is researching ways to make them grow more easily aro...

A space test chamber is used to re-create the conditions of space, including the vacuum and temperature.

Paul Eccleston shows us the chamber at th...

Lee Jones could be called an "electron gunsmith", devising electron guns for particle accelerators.

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Engin-X is an instrument at the ISIS neutron source, in Oxfordshire.

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Nigel Hammond works behind the scenes at the Diamond Light Source - a huge synchrotron in Oxfordshire.

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Strange, exotic particles which are made at the huge ISIS particle accelerator in Oxfordshire.

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Solar scientist Chris Davis chooses his ten favourite images of our star. Chris works on the STEREO mission, but has chosen a variety of personal a...

Dr Max Whitby - the element collector - melts half a kilogram of silver and casts a solid cylinder of the precious metal.

Max's website is http://...

Solar scientist Chris Davis chooses his ten favourite images of our star. Chris works on the STEREO mission, but has chosen a variety of personal a...

Solar scientist Chris Davis chooses his ten favourite images of our star. Chris works on the STEREO mission, but has chosen a variety of personal a...

Physicists at the ALICE and EMMA particle accelerators pop bottle of Champagne when they achieve special milestones.

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Crash testing a prototype tandem bicycle rack, made by engineering students at the University of Nottingham.

Earlier video about this project at h...

Bruce Kennedy is a UK particle physicist who works on the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

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Cadbury Creme Eggs and real eggs are MRI scanned for this special Easter video.

Sir Peter Mansfield developed a lot of MRI technology at The Unive...

More from inside the Diamond synchrotron storage ring during a 'shut down'. Main video is at http://www.youtube.com/watc...

A new telescope instrument called KMOS will use 24 tiny "pick off" mirrors to look at individual galaxies. It's being built in Scotland but will so...

ALICE and EMMA are prototype particle accelerators at the Daresbury Laboratory, run by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).

Peter...

Ernest Rutherford's famous gold foil experiment involves the scattering of alpha particles as they pass through a thin gold foil.

It led to a bett...