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@summer-science-blog
We have divided our publications into those exploring the mechanism of the fuel producing enzymes we use, and their incorporation in to artificial photosynthesis systems.
Enzyme mechanism publications
1) Evans, Rhiannon M., Parkin, Alison., Roessler, Maxie M., Murphy, Bonnie J., Adamson,...
Thank you to everyone who has sent us pictures of the microbes they grew at home following our petri dish giveaway at the summer science exhibition. Here are some of the best pictures…
(If you have pictures too, send them in we’d love to see them! Although we hope nobody can beat those of Fred...
So nearly a week on from the manic and exhausting but inspiring Summer Science event we’ve been thinking about some of our favourite moments on the stall! What were your favourite things?
The look on people’s faces after trying saltwater sample number 2
Small children having fun with...
The show and tell sessions at the Summer Science Exhibition were a lot of fun, and gave the exhibiting teams the opportunity to say a bit more about some of the items they had on display. Today’s video is a snippet from the Clever Microbes show and tell session. Clever Microbes team member Paul Kirk uses 3d protein models, together with a story about contacting the President of the USA through Facebook, to explain how bacterial cells sense and respond to their environment.
Fantastic time at the Summer Science Exhibition at the Royal Society last week. We thought you might enjoy and benefit from a list of our favourite most commonly asked questions and some more obscure themes we found ourselves discussing.
Did dinosaurs have feathers?
Indeed some did, birds are...
Fantastic time at the Summer Science Exhibition at the Royal Society last week. We thought you might enjoy and benefit from a list of our favourite most commonly asked questions and some more obscure themes we found ourselves discussing.
Did dinosaurs have feathers?
Indeed some did, birds are...
Catch up with the best bits of the Café Scientifiques from our exhibition with the fourth and final podcast, featuring:
How our brains process the information we hear, with Professor Sophie Scott
Professor Tim Wright on earthquakes and whether we can predict them
Award-winning author Emma Donoghue and why being a mean mother may actually help children!
Download the podcast here
The third episode is also available to download. Enjoy!
Thank you to everyone who came and visited our stand! We had a blast, and we hope you did too. Get in touch if you have any questions ([email protected]) and don’t forget to plant that solar fuel and submit your results!
During the Summer Science Exhibition we got a lot of questions about the commercialization potential of our research.
We believe that an integrated artificial photosynthesis and fuel producing system may be able to be manufactured and scaled up in the next 20-30 years.
However, the amazing thing about fundamental research and blue skies thinking is that there is no telling which amazing places it might lead…
Just look at these incredible inventions that weren’t all about the money!
A massive thank you to everyone who came to see us at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition! We had a great time and it was fantastic to see so many enthusiastic faces of all ages. We hope you learned some interesting things about the ocean, and most importantly, had fun!
Here are just a few of our favourite photos - scroll through to see them all.
Why did we have these beautiful flowers on our stand?
The fossil fuels we rely on are the remains of ancient plants and animals which used the sun to grow and survive millions of years ago. They are concentrated stores of ‘ancient’ solar energy.
Our science is inspired by the way nature has been able to harness energy from the sun and we are working towards artificial photosynthesis (APS) systems which could mimic this process in the lab.
Thank you to all the wonderful people who helped to knit these lovely flowers.
How many solar fuel scientists can you spot in this summer science exhibition video?
The Glove Box!
In the Armstrong Group we use a piece of lab equipment called a glove box. This bit of kit can be used to study molecules or proteins that can’t survive in normal air because they are sensitive to oxygen.
For example, the hydrogenase enzymes that produce hydrogen in our artificial photosynthesis systems can be sensitive to oxygen so we have to study them in glove boxes.
The glove box is tightly sealed, so all of the oxygen can be removed and replaced with another type of gas, such as a nitrogen. To make sure no oxygen is introduced by accident, we have to use big neoprene gloves when we work inside the glove box.
At the Royal Society Summer Exhibition, we set up a glove box for all of our visitors to try. The object was to complete a circuit game to power a marble run. Despite wearing huge sticking gloves some people were still incredibly dexterous - the fastest time to complete the circuit was under 10 seconds!
Some photos of our exhibition stand at the Summer Science Exhibition! We are down here in London for one more day (tomorrow, July 7th) — so come visit us in order to watch our 3D movie, see yourself acting as a gravitational lens, or just chat with us about Cosmology.
Here’s our third awesome podcast, hot off the press with the latest science from our exhibition!
Tune in for:
Why Imran Kahn and Ben Goldacre are especially fond of our exhibition
How synthesized speech technology will give patients a new voice
How microbes are cleaning up nuclear energy
Download the podcast here and stay tuned for more podcasts later this week!
The second episode is also available to download. Enjoy!
Dr Julian Rayner talks about malarial drug resistance and how genome sequencing can help, and discusses some of the issues that human genome sequencing raise.
Find out more about his exhibit here: http://sse.royalsociety.org/2013/exhibits/beyond-the-genome
