Feather in Vacuum - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2012-07-24 | Dropping a feather and metal balls in a vacuum chamber to see what gravity is really all about... The astronaut David Scott performed a similar experiment on the Moon with a hammer and feather.More Backstage Science at http://www.backstagescience.comFilms by Brady Haran for the STFC
Hydrogen Storage (extra interview) - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2013-03-06 | Extra interview footage with Tim Mays from the main video at http://youtu.be/qzqAkHPnpJMBackstage Science films by Brady Haran for the STFCMore Backstage Science at http://www.backstagescience.com
Hydrogen Storage - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2013-03-06 | A team from the University of Bath use the neutrons at ISIS to make a breakthrough.Special thanks to Valeska Ting and Tim Mays.Extra interview footage with Tim at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDGtvP4EXqQBackstage Science films by Brady Haran for the STFCMore Backstage Science at http://www.backstagescience.com
The Worlds Most Important Beer Cooler BackstageScience 2012-07-03 | 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 cooler is used to calibrate sea surface temperature instruments, ultimately feeding into observations made from space.Featuring Hugh Mortimer from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory at the STFC.Backstage Science films by Brady Haran for the STFCMore Backstage Science at http://www.backstagescience.comVideo editing in this film by Stephen Slater.
Protein Crystals - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2012-05-16 | Creating and studying proteins is a complicated business - in this video we take you behind the scenes with people who do it. More Backstage Science at http://www.backstagescience.com Videos by Brady Haran for the Science Technology and Facilities Council (STFC). Editing in this film by Stephen Slater
DNA and Lasers - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2012-05-03 | Stan Botchway explains how lasers have a dual purpose when studying DNA - doing the damage and then monitoring the repair process. Dr Botchway works at the STFC's Central Laser Facility. Backstage Science videos by video journalist Brady Haran for the STFC. More at http://www.backstagescience.com
Behind Closed Doors - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2012-01-09 | 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 Science at http://www.backstagescience.com
Space Shaker - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2012-01-04 | 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 instrument. More Backstage Science at http://www.backstagescience.com
Ania at ISIS - Q & A BackstageScience 2012-01-04 | Some extra questions and answers with Anna "Ania" Paradowska. More Backstage Science at http://www.backstagescience.com
Nanoscientist - Q & A BackstageScience 2012-01-04 | Professor Sean Langridge works on nanoscience at ISIS, using the facility's powerful neutron beams. More Backstage Science at http://www.backstagescience.com
Neutrons and Nanoscience - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2012-01-03 | Beams of neutrons can be used to make important discoveries in the world of nanoscience. Here we explore three instruments (and beamlines) at the ISIS facility in Oxfordshire, where Neutrons are put to use. More from Professor Sean Langridge at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CfHao_-g3M More Backstage Science at http://www.backstagescience.com
Muon Man - Backstage Science Q & A BackstageScience 2011-11-10 | Philip King from the Muon Group at ISIS tells us a little more about himself and his work. More backstage science at http://www.backstagescience.com Videos for the Science Technology and Facilities Council.
Octopus Laser - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-10-12 | Octopus is a laser system at the Central Laser Facility. More backstage science at http://www.backstagescience.com The laser facility is part of the Science Technology and Facilities Council.
Space Test Chamber - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-08-24 | 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 the STFC's RAL Space facility.
Electron Gunsmith - Backstage Science Q & A BackstageScience 2011-08-16 | Lee Jones could be called an "electron gunsmith", devising electron guns for particle accelerators. More about his work at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Q5rFf-aZI Lee works at the STFC's Daresbury Laboratory.
Engin-X - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-07-15 | Engin-X is an instrument at the ISIS neutron source, in Oxfordshire. More behind the scenes films at UK science centres at http://www.backstagescience.com On Twitter at twitter.com/#!/BackstageSci And Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/BackstageScience
Diamond Engineer - Backstage Science Q & A BackstageScience 2011-06-13 | Nigel Hammond works behind the scenes at the Diamond Light Source - a huge synchrotron in Oxfordshire. More about his work at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNhXAcHfdSg
Top 10 Images of the Sun - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-05-06 | 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 and professional views from spacecraft including SOHO and Voyager - and a few pictures from here on Earth. Tell us (or send us) your favourites too and I'll pop them in a follow-up video... backstagescience@gmail.com More science at http://www.backstagescience.com
Making Muons - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-05-03 | Strange, exotic particles which are made at the huge ISIS particle accelerator in Oxfordshire. More backstage science at http://www.backstagescience.com
Particle Physicist - Backstage Science Q & A BackstageScience 2011-05-01 | Bruce Kennedy is a UK particle physicist who works on the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. More Backstage Science at http://www.backstagescience.com
Champagne Moments - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-04-26 | Physicists at the ALICE and EMMA particle accelerators pop bottle of Champagne when they achieve special milestones. More Backstage Science at http://www.backstagescience.com
Inside Diamond (extra footage) - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-04-22 | More from inside the Diamond synchrotron storage ring during a 'shut down'. Main video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNhXAcHfdSg
Rutherford Gold Foil Experiment - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-04-14 | 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 better understanding of the structure of atoms. It's also known as the Geiger--Marsden experiment, after Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden who performed it under Rutherford's supervision. Particle physicist Bruce Kennedy explains wit this modern re-creation.
Inside Diamond - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-04-11 | A rare shutdown of the Diamond Light Source allows us to look deep inside the giant synchrotron.
Accelerator Physicist - Backstage Science Q & A BackstageScience 2011-04-06 | Peter Williams is an accelerator physicist, working on prototype particle accelerators at the STFC's Daresbury Laboratory. More about the facility at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYpN-BRnBH0
Particle Accelerators - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-04-04 | ALICE and EMMA are prototype particle accelerators at the Daresbury Laboratory, run by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). Peter Williams showed us around during a daily shut down, when the high energy electron beam was shut down.
Electron Gun - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-03-29 | We take a close look a how electron guns work with accelerator physicist Lee Jones, from the STFC Daresbury Laboratory.
Instrument Scientist - Backstage Science Q & A BackstageScience 2011-03-25 | Michele Cirasuolo is an instrument scientist working on KMOS. The instrument will be fitted to one of the telescopes at the VLT and provide new images of space in the infrared spectrum. Here Michele answer a few extra questions for Backstage Science. Main KMOS video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyXd9gp--5c
The telescope with 24 eyes - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-03-23 | 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 soon be fitted to the side of one of the giant telescopes at the VLT in Chile. Note, to clarify the introduction, the infrared detectors within KMOS form part of the overall instrument. KMOS is being built at the United Kingdom Astronomy Technology Centre
Amazing Science Books - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-03-17 | First editions of the most famous books by Newton and Copernicus are among the amazing Crawford Collection at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh. Also added the the collection is a cast of Isaac Newton's death mask. Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica and De revolutionibus
Plasma Scientist - Backstage Science Q & A BackstageScience 2011-03-15 | Ceri Brenner, a PhD student working in the field of plasma and lasers, answers some questions for Backstage Science. More with Ceri and the Vulcan Laser at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5WltfXcq9A
Super Intense Laser - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-03-11 | The Vulcan Laser is one of the most intense in the world. Researcher Ceri Brenner uses it to create plasmas. It is a so-called Petawatt Laser and based at the STFC's Central Laser Facility. More details about it at http://www.clf.rl.ac.uk/Facilities/Vulcan/12248.aspx
Polaris - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-03-09 | A new detector is to be installed at the ISIS neutron source. It is called Polaris. More about ISIS at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhlZaWGFQZY
Neutron Target - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-03-06 | Made of Tantalum and Tungsten. We're lucky enough to get a close look at the target which will be used to produce neutrons at ISIS. A more extensive look at ISIS at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhlZaWGFQZY
Powerful Magnets - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-03-04 | A quick close-up look at quadrupole and dipole magnets, which help steer proton beams at the ISIS facility. The beam is ultimately used to create neutrons. More about ISIS and neutrons at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhlZaWGFQZY
How to make Neutrons - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-03-02 | One of the world's leading neutron sources is the ISIS facility, in Oxfordshire, UK. We take a look around its cavernous buildings and discover how it works. Take a tour of its neighbour facility, Diamond, at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvrWvKFsTYE
Sun Gazer - Backstage Science Q & A BackstageScience 2011-02-28 | Solar scientist Chris Davis answers a few questions about his job and science in general. More about Chris and his work at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zllNYEEV_U
Lap of a Synchrotron - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-02-24 | Here's a narrated "lap' of the Diamond Light Source synchrotron, with descriptions of what happens along its various beam lines. The idea is to give a feeling of how long it takes to walk around the site and what happens there - so there are no edits in the commentary! The electrons below us complete this circuit in two millionths of a second! For a snappier look around Diamond, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvrWvKFsTYE
Treasure in the Basement - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-02-23 | Space scientist Chris Davis has unearthed scientific treasures in the basement of a building in Oxfordshire.
Tracking the X Flare - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-02-18 | Discussing how a recent X-class solar flare and its associated mass ejection was monitored by scientists.More from Chris Davis about STEREO at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zllNYEEV_U
Solar Scientist - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-02-18 | Chris Davis studies the Sun using instruments of the two STEREO spacecraft.
Brighter than the Sun - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-02-14 | We take a look at a synchrotron which produces light "100 billion times brighter than the sun - really, really bright". The Diamond Light Source is the UK's national synchrotron facility, used by academic and industry researchers.
Life at a Synchrotron - Backstage Science Q&A BackstageScience 2011-02-13 | We ask a few questions of scientist Claire Pizzey, who works at the Diamond Light Source, a huge synchrotron in Oxfordshire. See more about Diaomond at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR3cadGHLPE
Space Camera (extra footage) - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2011-01-30 | Extra clips and unused footage from our Backstage Science video about the MIRI "space camera" being built at RAL Space, in the UK. Main video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg8i7_46kQY
Space Cameraman - Backstage Science Q&A BackstageScience 2011-01-23 | We pose a few questions to Paul Eccleston. who is building a special camera destined to work in space. More about the MIRI camera at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg8i7_46kQY
Space Camera - Backstage Science BackstageScience 2010-12-22 | Paul Eccleston is overseeing the Mid Infrared Instrument, known as MIRI. It will be one of four cameras attached to the James Webb Space Telescope. We go "backstage" with Paul to see MIRI at RAL Space, which involves entering a special clean room. Backstage Science is presented by the Science and Technology Facilities Council.
Backstage Science - Coming Soon BackstageScience 2010-11-26 | We're taking you "backstage" into some of the UK's most amazing science facilities. Who works there and what are they doing? Videos coming soon.
