'Serpents and Synthesisers: the Physics of Musical Instruments' by Murray Campbell. Recording Crown Copyright 2008. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
'How can you measure it if you can't see it? by Richard Leach. Recording Crown Copyright 2008. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
'Metropoly: a game of chance' by Alistair Forbes. Recording Crown Copyright 2008. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
Humidity measurement by Stephanie Bell Recording Crown Copyright 2008. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
'Citior, altior, fortior ... accuratior? The metrology of sport' by Seton Bennett Recording Crown Copyright 2008. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
''High Efficiency Lighting - the measurement challenge'' by Emma Woolliams, recorded in June 2008. Recording Crown Copyright 2008. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
'Simulating materials with chemical detail at IBM: From biophysics to high-tech applications' by Glenn Martyna, from IBM New York. Audio only. Recording Crown Copyright 2008. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
'Atom and molecule mechanics' by John Pethica Recording Crown Copyright 2007. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
''Electron Backscattering Diffraction - mapping microstructures from nanometres to millimetres'' by Ken Mingard, recorded in November 2007. Recording Crown Copyright 2007. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
''Why are NPL getting a Clinical LinAc?'' by Alan DuSautoy, recorded in November 2007. Recording Crown Copyright 2007. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
'Lord Rayleigh' by Peter Wells Recording Crown Copyright 2007. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
'Curiouser and curiouser: Radiochemical analysis of Nuclear Reactor Bioshields' by Simon Jerome Recording Crown Copyright 2007. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
'Making quantum electrical standards more accessible: the quantum Hall effect in Indium Antimonide' by Stephen Giblin Recording Crown Copyright 2007. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
'Interfaces between Functional Electronic Systems' by Jochen Mannhart. Audio Only Recording Crown Copyright 2007. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
'Air Pollution Modelling' by Garry Hayman Recording Crown Copyright 2007. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
'Sustaining Moore's Law - The Interconnect Challenge' by Chris Hunt. Recording Crown Copyright 2007. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
'Fuel cells: making the transition to a low carbon economy' by Gareth Hinds. Recording Crown Copyright 2007. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
'On the road to the universal Kelvin' by Wolfgang Buck, from PTB Recording Crown Copyright 2007. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
'Electroanalytical immunosensor utilising metal nano particles' by Robert Porter. Recording Crown Copyright 2007. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
'The Quantum Elephant in the Metrology Corner' by Alexander Tzalenchuk. Recording Crown Copyright 2007. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
''Space the Final Frontier for Wireless Comms'' by Mark Beach, from Bristol University Recording Crown Copyright 2007. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
'Metallic spintronics: recent developments and potential for a future Spin Electronics' by Claude Chappert Recording Crown Copyright 2006. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
'From metre to picometre - Dimensional Metrology at NPL' by Andrew Yacoot Recording Crown Copyright 2006. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
'New radiotherapy techniques - measuring dose in complex 3D treatments' by Peter Sharpe Recording Crown Copyright 2006. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
'Adapting the SI to the 21st century' by Ian Mills Recording Crown Copyright 2006. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
The technologies used in current Earth Observation satellites have intrinsic uncertainties (measurement errors) that do not matter for individual missions but matter a great deal when we need to study the small incremental changes over long periods of time that are typical of Climate Change. Dr Nigel Fox describes the need for a calibration laboratory in space (called TRUTHS ), that would enable scientists to correct errors in the data from other satellites. TRUTHS or a similar capability would ...
'Surgery by soundbeam - the use of high intensity focussed ultrasound to treat cancer' by Adam Shaw Recording Crown Copyright 2006. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
'Shining a light on climate change - an advanced airborne laser system for monitoring the atmosphere' by Rod Robinson Recording Crown Copyright 2006. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
'Beauty IS skin deep: The chemical analysis of organic surfaces' by Alex Shard Recording Crown Copyright 2006. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.
The way in which we perceive materials and objects affects us, and the decisions we make, every day, and in many different ways. We decide whether to buy clothes based on their 'look' and 'feel'; we decide whether to eat a meal based on its 'look', 'smell' and 'taste'; we listen to music because we 'like the sound'. There is therefore a lot of interest from Industry in being able to measure physical properties to make predictions of our subjective perception of a material or object. But is this ...
