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Ideas Studio

  • 11 and over
  • Energy
  • Industry
  • Transport

WWF Scotland – Climate Innovation

Join Holly O'Donnell, from WWF Scotland, as she discusses the innovative technologies being developed for cities of the future to reduce our impact on the environment.
  • 13 and over
  • Engineering

Construction Innovation with Morrison Construction

Take a virtual tour of a construction site to see how the latest innovation and technology can be used in building design and how to build sites with very low environmental impact.
  • 11 and over
  • Space

Scotland Innovating in the Space Sector

The space sector is booming in Scotland. Join Pam Anderson and Derek Bennet of AAC Clyde Space to find out about innovation and growth in the space sector and how we use satellites to communicate and collect information.
  • 13 and over
  • Space

Stephanie Walker and Miriam Sargusingh

Living in space has its challenges, but it's the engineers and scientists on the ground who find many of the solutions. Join NASA engineers Stephanie Walker and Miriam Sargusingh as we take a trip to low Earth orbit and beyond.
  • 13 and over
  • Engineering

Jet Engine Evolution with Rolls Royce

Join Rolls Royce to follow the manufacturing journey of compressor aerofoils and explore the evolution of the jet engine.
Dr Luke Daly and Aine O'Brien sit on a wall at the edge of a garden
  • 11 and over
  • Space

David Elder Lecture: UKFAll – Retrieving meteorites and why it’s important

Get the lowdown on the lockdown meteorite! Hear from Glasgow planetary scientists, Dr Luke Daly and Aine O'Brien, about how a small but mighty team of cameras, amateur astronomers and citizen scientists, collected the first UK meteorite in 30 years.
  • 13 and over
  • Space

David Elder Lecture: Looking at our solar system with the James Webb Space Telescope

What is the James Webb Space Telescope and why is it going to change how we see our solar system? Join Naomi Rowe-Gurney from the University of Leicester to find out.
  • 13 and over
  • Health

The Scottish Capsule Programme (SCOTCAP)

Find out about an innovative healthcare project which uses a digital camera, inside a capsule the size of a vitamin pill, to journey through the digestive system and search for signs of ill health.
  • 11 and over
  • Health

#DigiInventorsChallenge

Can you help Scotland’s young people keep active, healthy and happy? Join the #DigiInventorsChallenge with Glasgow Warriors and the Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI).
  • 11 and over
  • Computer Science
  • Health

Using Virtual Reality to Understand Disease

See how cutting-edge software, using virtual reality, allows you to enlarge, rotate and “enter” tiny structures like protein molecules! Then discover how changes to DNA affect protein molecules and cause disease.
  • 8 and over
  • Climate Change
  • Materials
  • Our Planet

Rock Powered Planet: Mining, Recycling and Sustainability

Rocks and minerals are vital for technology including smartphones, wind turbines and solar panels, but do we really have enough supply to meet the growing demand?
  • 8 and over
  • Engineering
  • Materials
  • Our Planet

Your Rock Powered Smartphone

What’s the connection between a volcano and a touch screen? Learn about the rocks and minerals that make up smartphones and how things need to change so we can keep up with the growing demand.
  • 11 and over
  • Our Planet

Insects as Tools for Monitoring Wild Animal Populations

Sampling blood from wild animals is a big challenge. That’s why researchers at the University of Glasgow are using biting insects to sample DNA from wild animal’s blood.
  • 11 and over
  • Climate Change
  • Computer Science
  • Data/Maths
  • Our Planet

Swimming, Not Drowning, in a Deep Pool of Data about Water

How can we use the huge amounts of data we collect, to learn about our ‘blue planet’ and the freshwater resources that support all life on Earth?
  • 11 and over
  • Computer Science
  • Health

Can Artificial Intelligence Detect Cancer?

Learn how experts have created an artificial intelligence system that can automatically find and measure cancer on patients’ scans, without any human input.
  • 11 and over
  • Computer Science
  • Health

Lasers, Microscopes and Virtual Reality

Imagine standing inside a human cell. Not a cell drawn by an artist but a real cell that was scanned by lasers and then sent to a VR headset!
  • 11 and over
  • Climate Change
  • Energy
  • Our Planet

Save Energy, Waste Energy

Can energy saving methods really end up using more energy? From recycling to carbon capture, which energy efficient methods are not as efficient as you might think?
  • 11 and over
  • Design
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Our Planet

Solar Powered Roads

The amount of sunlight that hits the Earth’s surface is huge! But are the possibilities of what we could use that amount of sunlight for even bigger?
  • 11 and over
  • Climate Change
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Our Planet

Salt Water Lamps

Salt + Water = Light! Ok it might not be that simple, otherwise saltwater lakes would be glowing all day, but see how simple chemistry could provide safe light sources.
  • 11 and over
  • Climate Change
  • Computer Science
  • Engineering
  • Our Planet
  • Transport

The Future of Transport: Driving Change in the Next 10 years

How is transport being revolutionised with technology to tackle pollution and banish congestion? From artificial intelligence to super-speed trains, what will the transport of our future really look like?
  • 8 and over
  • Climate Change
  • Energy

What is National Grid?

Have you ever wondered how energy gets from the source to your home? It’s not as simple as flicking a switch!
  • 13 and over
  • Computer Science
  • Engineering

The Innovation Podcast: Robotics and AI

Join James from the Innovate UK podcast as they explore the way robots could revolutionise our work, with help from industry experts already using this technology.
Wilf
  • 8 and over
  • Space

Wilf Wonders: What is a CubeSat?

Find out what nanosatellites can do, what they are made of, and how they get into space!
  • 13 and over
  • Health

Precision Medicine: What’s it all about?

Research into precision medicine is still new and exciting and turning it into real world clinical practice still remains a massive challenge! Explore our content to learn more about precision medicine and overcoming these challenges.
  • 13 and over
  • Health

Bats, Rabies and COVID-19: Can we Stop Animal-borne Diseases?

COVID-19 is one of many diseases thought to have spread from bats to humans. We need to find ways of preventing the ‘spillover’ of harmful viruses from the animal kingdom.
  • all ages
  • Our Planet

Wild Oyster Project: Using a New Platform to Re-establish an Old Industry

Most people know what an oyster is, but did you know they're rare in the wild? Learn about the Wild Oyster Project, which aims to re-establish UK native oyster.
  • 8 and over
  • Climate Change
  • Materials
  • Our Planet

Rock Powered Planet: Going Green

Learn how rocks and minerals from the earth are a vital part of going green, as we move away from harmful fossil fuels.
  • 13 and over
  • Computer Science
  • Space

Robotics and Space Debris

Find out how Astroscale plan to use robots to clear up space debris and help create a sustainable environment in space.
  • 13 and over
  • Climate Change
  • Engineering
  • Our Planet

BladeBUG

BladeBUG Limited is developing a unique walking robot to remotely inspect, maintain and repair wind turbine blades, helped by funding from the #ISCF​ Robots for a Safer World challenge.
  • 13 and over
  • Computer Science
  • Engineering

Innovate UK Predictions: The Future of Robotics

In the future, robots with artificial intelligence will help make life easier for us. How will they transform our industries and working lives, or help us tackle climate change?
  • adults only
  • Health

COVID-19, Health and Society

SENSITIVE CONTENT: How has the COVID-19 response influenced health and wellbeing across society?
  • 8 and over
  • Materials
  • Our Planet

Potato Bioplastics

Plastic from potatoes? Is it possible? Find out more about research into biopolymers and sustainable plastics.
  • 11 and over
  • Materials
  • Our Planet

Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging

Plastic waste is a worldwide issue, find out how scientists from The University of Strathclyde are working to develop Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging.
  • 8 and over
  • Climate Change
  • Our Planet

Dynamic Earth – Indigenous Solutions

See how scientists and indigenous people can work together to come up with solutions to problems caused by climate change, then create your own poster of what you’ve learned.
  • 8 and over
  • Computer Science
  • Our Planet

Dynamic Earth – Satellites and Snow Leopards

What is artificial intelligence and how do machines learn? Find out how researchers are using these innovative technologies to learn about snow leopards and protect them in the wild.
  • 8 and over
  • Climate Change
  • Engineering
  • Our Planet

Dynamic Earth – Innovation and the Climate Crisis: Science or Fiction?

From space umbrellas to hard working hamsters, can you sort the science from the fiction when it comes to creative solutions that could help solve the climate crisis?
  • 13 and over
  • Data/Maths
  • Space

Space: Data from Satellites

Observant eyes in the sky, or spies in orbit? The way data from satellites is used can be polarising, but we’re here to give you the facts to make up your own mind. 
  • 13 and over
  • Engineering
  • Space

Space: What is a Satellite?

Ever wondered what a satellite is? What they do? How some of them are useful to use every single day? Wonder no more, we have the answers! 
  • 13 and over
  • Engineering
  • Space

Space: Spaceports in Scotland

Find out about the forces that get rockets into space, the difference between vertical and horizontal launches, and how Scotland might be the next Cape Canaveral...  
  • 11 and over
  • Materials
  • Our Planet

Football Pitch Microplastics

You may not realise it but the little bits of black plastic you find in your shoes after playing football on an artificial pitch are a microplastic and can harm the environment.
  • 13 and over
  • Materials
  • Our Planet

Forever Chemicals – What are they and what can we do about them?

Dr Kerry Dinsmore explains the persistent problem with PFAS, and how this group of harmful industrial chemicals are replacing plastic as we rush to find sustainable alternatives to food packaging.
  • 8 and over
  • Design
  • Engineering
  • Materials

Glasgow Tower Uncovered

Join us for a tour of the Glasgow Tower, part of Glasgow’s unique skyline since 2001. It is the tallest tower in Scotland, and it holds the Guinness World Record for the only tower in the world that can fully rotate.
  • 11 and over
  • Industry
  • Materials
  • Our Planet

Climate Innovations: Bioplastics

We meet Dr Tracy White, from CuanTec to investigate how innovation in biotechnology can reduce plastic pollution and food waste.