Professor Duncan McGillivray tries to work out how Rumpelstiltskin made straw into gold.
Modified: Apr 28, 2022, 12:47 PM
Created: Apr 11, 2022, 11:27 AM
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Associate Investigator, Associate Professor Franck Natali on the Breakthrough Energy Fellowship enabling his team to research reducing the energy cost of ammonia production.
Modified: Apr 5, 2022, 1:04 PM
Created: Apr 5, 2022, 12:17 PM
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Principal Investigator, Associate Professor Geoff Willmott on the stillsuits from Dune; the water-saving suit.
Modified: Apr 4, 2022, 3:00 PM
Created: Apr 4, 2022, 10:43 AM
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Dr Chris Bumby regales Bryan with scientific tales of Mithril from Lord of the Rings.
Modified: Apr 4, 2022, 2:43 PM
Created: Apr 1, 2022, 9:47 AM
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Massey University's Associate Professor Catherine Whitby talk about Mandalorian Iron from Star Wars.
Modified: Apr 4, 2022, 2:40 PM
Created: Mar 19, 2022, 3:03 PM
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Professor Justin Hodgkiss talks about the scientific feasibility of Star Wars' lightsabers.
Modified: Apr 4, 2022, 2:41 PM
Created: Mar 14, 2022, 3:49 PM
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Dr Nate Davis, explains Jumbonium as: a tennis-ball-sized atom with the electrons orbiting.
Modified: Apr 4, 2022, 2:42 PM
Created: Mar 9, 2022, 10:39 AM
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Dr Catherine Whitby, said self-repairing materials like the Ironman Suit are kind of the "holy grail" for scientists.
Modified: Apr 4, 2022, 2:42 PM
Created: Jan 7, 2022, 4:36 PM
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Associate Professor JJ Eldridge at the University of Auckland gives her take on the science behind Santa.
Modified: Jan 7, 2022, 4:42 PM
Created: Dec 24, 2021, 10:58 AM
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Research Fellow, Dr Rodrigo Martinez Gazoni,fact checks the science behind Back to the Future.
Modified: Jan 7, 2022, 4:42 PM
Created: Dec 20, 2021, 9:44 AM
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Principal Investigator Dr Chris Bumby, is a Principal Scientist at the Robinson Institute, he gives us his scientific take on Adamantium.
Modified: Jan 7, 2022, 4:42 PM
Created: Dec 10, 2021, 11:27 AM
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Dr Krista Steenbergen, Associate Investigator and lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington gives her scientific take on Dilithium Crystals from Star Trek
Modified: Jan 7, 2022, 4:43 PM
Created: Dec 10, 2021, 11:23 AM
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