 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
THE MATERIAL WORLD
|
 |
|
 |
MISSED A PROGRAMME?
Go to the Listen Again page |
|
|
|
|
|
|
PROGRAMME INFO |
|
|
|
|
|
Quentin Cooper reports on developments across the sciences. Each week scientists describe their work, conveying the excitement they feel for their research projects.
material.world@bbc.co.uk |
|
|
|
|
LISTEN AGAIN 30 min |
|
|
|
|
YOUR QUESTIONS |
|
|
|
 |
PRESENTER |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
"For me science isn't a subject, it's a perspective. There are fascinating scientific aspects to everything from ancient history to the latest gadgets, outer space to interior decorating; and each week on The Material World we try to reflect the excitement, ideas, uncertainties, collisions and collaborations as science continues its never-ending voyage into the unknown".
Quentin Cooper |
|
|
|
BIOGRAPHY
INTERVIEW |
|
|
|
|
|
|
PROGRAMME DETAILS |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Cars of the future
What will the car of the future look like? And how will the way we use our cars change over the next twenty years?
In this week's Material World Quentin Cooper talks to Professor Chris Wright, head of transport management research at Middlesex University and Dale Harrow, head of vehicle design at the Royal College of Art. They will discuss how the aesthetics of car design may mean cars of the future blend better with their urban environment
With our roads becoming impossibly congested and the knock on environmental effects of such traffic, Chris says that things are going to have to change. No longer will cars be built and marketed as powerful, fast machines. High horsepower petrol and diesel engines will give over to the light, economical fuel cell vehicle.
Dale Harrow is already teaching students how to design these cars for the future and he will be describing how they intend to bridge the gap between the sleek, aerodynamic, speed machines of today and the simple, economic automated cars of the future.
Find out what we'll be driving in the future in Material World with Quentin Cooper.
Bacteriophage
MRSA is big news. Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and other antibiotic-resistant bacteria are on the increase, and doctors and the government seem to be fighting a losing battle trying to halt the rise in cases of infection. Now researchers are looking to bacteriophages to help fight MRSA.
Bacteriophages are viruses that eat bacteria. They are found everywhere: 1millilitre of seawater contains 100 million phages.
In this week's Material World, Quentin Cooper meets Professor James Soothill - Professor of Clinical Microbiology at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Professor Nick Mann - Professor of Biology at the University of Warwick to find out why this century-old technology is now being seen as the key to future medicines. |
|
|
RELATED LINKS
BBC News Online: MRSA Q&A
www.phage.org
Novolytics - bacteriophage therapy research company
The Royal College of Art - Dale Harrow
Transport Management Research Centre, University of Middlesex
BBC Science & Nature
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites
|
|
|
|
|
|
