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Plants - Chapter 9 |
Plants are awesome, with photosynthesis being the most disruptive invention ever! Join Professor Lindsay Turnbull from the University of Oxford to understand why |
Lindsay Turnbull |
01 Dec 2023 |
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Why is the world green? |
Lindsay searches for the truth about our verdant green world and tackles a mystery about her rose-bushes: who ate all the greenfly? |
Lindsay Turnbull |
24 May 2020 |
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Plants, Photosynthesis, and Solar Energy |
The planet is in trouble; fossil fuels are being depleted and are contributing to global warming. Plants, however, have been directly harnessing solar energy for as long as they have existed. A flash talk from Tomas Leijtens. |
Tomas Leijtens |
07 Jul 2014 |
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Quantum Measurement and Control: How to Roll a Six Everytime |
In this flash talk Wojciech Kozlowski discusses the bizarre properties of measurement and how we can harness its probabilistic nature to produce results. |
Wojciech Kozlowski |
07 Jul 2014 |
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Photosynthesis in Nature |
Dr Alison Foster, a former chemist and Senior Curator at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden explains the principals of natural photosynthesis that the Armstrong Group is trying to mimic in the lab. |
Alison Foster |
19 Jul 2013 |
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Enzymes as Fuel Producers |
Growing energy demand worldwide is a crucial challenge for chemists. Suzannah Hexter, Armstrong Group, shows how, with the help of enzymes, the principles of photosynthesis may be artificially exploited and improved to provide a clean energy resource. |
Suzannah Hexter |
19 Jul 2013 |
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Introduction to Solar Fuels |
In an 'Oxford tutorial' style podcast, Professor Fraser Armstrong introduces the concept of artificial photosynthesis: coupling a light harvesting material with a fuel producer in order to generate storable energy from sunlight. |
Fraser Armstrong |
19 Jul 2013 |
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18. Why are plants green? |
Why chlorophyll and hence plants, looks green. |
Alison Parkin |
18 Oct 2012 |
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11. The machine inside plants |
The photosynthetic machinery inside plants is explained. |
Alison Parkin |
18 Oct 2012 |
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05. Energy from the sun |
How plants use energy from the sun to make food from carbon dioxide and water. |
Alison Parkin |
18 Oct 2012 |
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09. The hornbeam |
How photosynthesis explains why this tree has grown so large. |
Timothy Walker |
28 May 2012 |