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...carbon, the building blocks of today's nano world. Introducing the Electron and Scanning Tunnelling Microscopes in Cambridge. Quantum Mechanics How we can re-position atoms one by one to build a structure, and the tools needed to do it. Robots in Our Bodies? How we can begin to engineer nano-particles to fix medical problems inside the body. The New Machine Age The future...

...in action. Anxiety and hyperventilation How an anxious mind causes rapid removal of carbon dioxide from lungs, leading to significant consequences. It's all in the breath How conscious, controlled breathing enhances health and wellbeing and tames the mind. Stressed out at work A primary school teacher gets wired up with monitors to show how his body responds to stress....

...carbon dioxide, air, or mixtures of these gases. “Plasma” consists of a mixture of neutral atoms, free electrons and positive ions. The plasma arc, which can reach temperatures of up to 28,000°C, is transferred to the workpiece, which is usually positive, where it “blows away” the molten metal. Energies of approximately 10kWh m-3 and thermal efficiencies of...

...carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. It also breaks down into microplastics, meaning it gets into our food systems via the soil and fish. One way to address these problems is to take a circular approach to plastic, designing it to stay in use for as long as possible. In the current model, we take raw materials, make them into plastic...

...carbon cycling in soil environments, specifically studying microbes that consume methanol. The post-PhD move to AstrobiologyOU at the Open University might seem a bit odd but the methods I am using to study microbes in extreme environments are the methods I learned during my PhD; I’m using the same methods to answer a different set of questions. My research is now split...