Are We Alone in the Universe?

When they were invented in the 17th century, microscopes revolutionised science. Professor John Rodenburg explores how a microscope works and why, despite their success, microscopes have some profound weaknesses.

Solar storms have great effects on the climate of space weather, something which is increasingly concerning in our modern age as a lot of our technologies rely on satellites that are vulnerable to changes in the Earths shield from the Sun, the magnetosph. Matthew Lennard discuss our current understanding of how these events occur and what we can do to predict them, and how machine learning provides us with data which is otherwise inaccessible.

We might soon have an answer to the question of are we alone in the universe. We now have the technology to maybe detect life on planets around other stars. Professor Simon Goodwin will explore how we're able to do this, and speculate on if we might find alien life, and what that life might be like.