Short Circuit
Award-winning series encouraging discussion about major scientific issues
Short Circuit - Biology - Programmes 1-3
Award-winning series encouraging discussion about major scientific issues, providing real-life examples to explain key issues for biology students.
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Short Circuit - Biology - Programmes 4-6
Award-winning series encouraging discussion about major scientific issues, providing real-life examples to explain key issues for biology students.
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Short Circuit - Changes in the Atmosphere
Bringing chemistry, physics and biology to life. Meteorologist Suzanne Charlton explains the greenhouse effect and its possible consequences.
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Short Circuit - Chemistry, Biology and Physics - Programmes 1-3
Bringing chemistry, physics and biology to life. A look at the chemical element aluminium, the compound ammonia, and redox reactions.
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Short Circuit - Chemistry, Biology and Physics - Programmes 4-6
Bringing science to life using real-life examples and practical experiments. A look at energy, the eye, and electromagnetism.
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Short Circuit - Earthquakes and Seismic Waves
Bringing science to life. Can science make it safer to live in San Francisco? Understanding seismic waves may help the city prepare for an earthquake.
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Short Circuit - Electromagnetic Waves
Bringing science to life. How global communications systems are based on the properties of electromagnetic waves: reflection, refraction and diffraction.
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Short Circuit - Fatal Addiction
Bringing science to life. Why it is so hard to give up smoking, and should tobacco advertising be banned? The effects of smoking on the body are examined.
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Short Circuit - Investigation - Compounds
Bringing chemistry, physics and biology to life. Students learn about the chemistry within everyone and the atomic interactions that make it possible.
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Short Circuit - Message in a Bottle
Bringing science to life. Alcohol is readily available, socially acceptable and kills one person every 20 minutes. Should advertising alcohol be banned?
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Short Circuit - Periodic Table
Bringing science to life using real-life examples, 3D graphics and practical experiments. A look at the Periodic Table, the chart of chemical elements.
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Short Circuit - Physics
Award-winning series encouraging discussion about major scientific issues. Taking a look at physical processes.
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Short Circuit - Polymers
Bringing chemistry, physics and biology to life. Polymers are easily made and moulded to any purpose. Can the consequences be avoided as waste piles up in landfill sites?
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Short Circuit - Pressure
Bringing science to life. A reconstruction of a diving incident in which a woman was almost killed by pressure, demonstrating how pressure can be both dangerous and benign.
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Short Circuit - Radioactivity
Bringing chemistry, physics and biology to life. Exploring the nature of radioactivity, including how radiation is used to diagnose bone fractures in sports injuries.
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Short Circuit - Shock Tactics
Bringing science to life. The uses of electricity, from the beauty business to the electric chair, featuring Edison and Tesla's battle over alternating current.
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Short Circuit - Space
Bringing chemistry, physics and biology to life. A journey from Earth to the edge of the cosmos, revealing how stars like our own sun and the wider universe were formed.
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