Podcast: heights and sounds from the Imperial Festival
An electric motorbike, an intelligent knife, and a trip up the Queen's Tower feature in a special edition of the Imperial Podcast.
The podcast is presented by Gareth Mitchell, a lecturer on Imperial's Science Communication MSc course and the presenter of Click Radio on the BBC World Service, with Sam Wong and other members of the Communications and Public Affairs Division.
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- Algae and an electric motorbike – Morgane Valles (Life Sciences) and Billy Wu (Earth Science and Engineering) explain their exhibits in the Research Zone.
- The intelligent knife – Professor Roger Kneebone explains how a new diagnostic tool might change the way surgical teams work.
- Climbing the Queen’s Tower – Gareth Mitchell makes the 324-step ascent to the top of Imperial’s most famous landmark.
- The Reach Out Lab – Young visitors to the festival extract DNA from strawberries and build towers from spaghetti.
- Knots and chemical photography - Senja Barthel on the maths of unsolvable knots and Jen Dougan on how infrared light can be used to reveal the chemical composition of samples.
The view from the top of the Queen's Tower
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