Altering the Climate and The Mary Rose

Available for over a year

Grow your own Climate Could analysing the particles inside raindrops and snowflakes allow us to alter the weather? Cindy Morris of the French Institute of Agronomy believes it just might. Hair Today, Jail Tomorrow Geoff speaks to researchers at the University of Utah who’ve found that the chemical make up of your hair can show where you’ve been. Their work could have important implications in the field of forensics. Space Junk Will space travel ever be safe? Marcus Chown ponders the real and increasing threat of space junk. The Mary Rose Raised from the seabed nearly thirty years ago, Henry VIII's favourite ship is a remarkable record of Tudor naval life. But preserving its artefacts needs the latest science, as Roland Pease reports. Microscopic Engineering Geoff visits scientists at Harvard University who’ve been working at the molecular and cellular level to develop “biohybrids”. Among other things, these combinations of living and non-living tissue could be used to patch a hole in the heart or test new medicines.