Pre-Sessional 2011

Series of lectures on a single topic, presenting scientific subjects to a general audience in an informative and entertaining manner

How can a hamster survive falling from the top of a skyscraper, ants carry over 100 times their own body weight and geckos climb across the ceiling?

Dr Mark Miodownik zooms into the microscopic world beneath our fingertips. In this unfamiliar landscape, strange forces dominate the world and common sense goes out of the window.

Why is the tallest building on earth less than half a mile high? Why don't we have mountains as tall as those on Mars?