Roger Frost speaks with Matt Bruff of Altela Inc, a Denver company making technology that turns the most polluted water useful again. The company licence large-scale water recycling plants that handle the massive quantities of polluted water that arise when extracting oil and gas. Matt Bruff in Cambridge and he tells how their technology gives water that’s pretty much fit to drink.

Thanks by the gallon to Altela Inc altelainc.com

Tagged chemistry, Chris Creese, physics, Roger Frost

14/07/2012

Looking for a place at Oxbridge? This show looks at the information available to help students make a better choice of university. Roger Frost talks to former college admissions tutor John Green on the need for scientific data and intelligent ways to analyse it.

Read more at myoxbridgechoice.com.

Tagged biology, university, admissions, statistics, maths

07/04/2012

Journal editor Sally Hirst talks about a group of micro-organisms called parasites.

Tagged biology, health

30/06/2012

As the season switched from spring to summer we look at weedkillers. How do weedkillers (aka herbicides) work? How can a weedkiller target one plant and not another? Roger Frost asked plant scientist, Chris Creese and gained some intriguing answers.

The ‘International Union for Conservation of Nature’ is the world’s oldest and largest environmental organisation and has a base in Cambridge in Huntingdon Road. Nicola Terry hears from with the IUCN’s Rebecca Miller about her work.

Read more at iucn.org

Find the “IUCN Red list” of threatened species at iucnredlist.org

Enter your own species sightings at www.inaturalist.org

Cambridge science teacher Dr William Hirst tells Roger Frost how learning the language of science can improve children’s success at school. Dr Hirst is the author of a science dictionary for ages 10 -14 called “William’s Words in Science”

Follow-up link see www.williamswords.co.uk

Neil and Lottie invited us to their Breakfast Show on Cambridge 105 radio. We answer questions about how the show came about. There was giggling but it was an informative chat too.

Chris Cox  of IPACCESS in Cambourne explains to Roger Frost how mobile phones talk to radio masts; how signals decrease inside buildings and how femtocells (aka ‘small cells’) can improve a weak signal.

Follow-up link IP access ipaccess.com

Tagged technology, physics, Roger Frost

05/02/12

When the news told of the discovery of ‘another’ Mona Lisa, Roger Frost visited local inventor Lawrence Robinson of OPUS Instruments.  He learned about the OSIRIS infra-red camera which had been used to verify the find by ‘seeing’ under the paint of paintings.

Follow-up link

OPUS Instruments www.opusinstruments.com.

Tagged infrared, technology, physics, Roger Frost

First played on the Science Show 05/02/12

The sponsors of the London Olympic games included a fizzy drink maker; a fast food restaurant and a chocolate brand, so we go in search of advice on a healthy diet. Cambridge doctor Simon Poole offered his knowledge on healthy food. He talks about the difference between Omega-3 and Omega-6 and the Mediterranean diet.

Follow-up links

Dr Poole can be contacted via the website: the Taste of the Mediterranean at www.tasteofthemed.com

Tagged biology, health

23/04/2012