when the imperial college of london discovered fossilized space dust for me only ninety million years ago and the famous white cliffs of dover along the english countryside they may crack the code of long term space travel see it's estimated that twenty to thirty thousand metric tons of cosmic dust enters or up the rabbits for every year on year ten percent is thought to reach the earth's surface and the ones that do are rarely ever found these micro meteorites are less than a millimeter in size and normally melt into severe a cold drops as they travel through the atmosphere forming quite beautiful. dendrite den triptych crystals but the micrometeorites founded by the imperial college of london in dover weren't spheres the cosmic dust was an altered there are now coming up with ways to test for clay water and other things inside the dust while you well we could use the info information to track asteroids and comets that down the road human explorers and space could use as stops on long trips and as a kind of natural filling station in space so the glittering extraterrestrial dusted cl

professor george yip from the business school at imperial college university here in londonjoins me.d business report, good to see you. the invocations of this, either way, what do you make of it? this is a typical fight between multinational companies who have their value around the world. northern ireland is part of bombardier‘s value chain and governments normally subsidise multinational companies to put jobs in their countries, canada is being accused of this and the uk government gave a loan of £100 million to bombardier in order to put theirjobs there so you see these disputes over time. with president trump having run on trade protection, this will be a big issue for him because he's all so dealing with major appliance imports from south korea, solar panels from china. this is a high profile case and the decision is going to be made bya us and the decision is going to be made by a us entity event though it's meant to be an independent court, it is still a us entity and in the end what happens will be subject to political influence from the white house. that's why prime ministe

imperial college london are taking part ina imperial college london are taking part in a major european plastics move through the ocean. we want to understand how currents can move past six, how it accumulates and how it affects the environment. —— can move plastics. we only know about 1% of the plastic that we fell into the ocean, so we of the plastic that we fell into the ocean, so we want to understand what is happening. i love paddle boarding and when! is happening. i love paddle boarding and when i first started doing it in london on the canals and rivers, i realise how bad the problem was with a stick illusion. —— plastic pollution. trying to stop it getting into the sea in the first place is lizzie's passion and ambition.|j into the sea in the first place is lizzie's passion and ambition. i saw a coutts nest, one time, that was made almost entirely of plastics. it was this horrifying moment. and i thought, something needs to be done. i need to show people what i'm seeing every time i'm out paddling, just how about this problem is, inland as well is in the oceans. she has paddle b

at imperial college in london, mosquitoes are used to investigate a vaccine for malaria, part of a multinationals across the uk benefit from eu funding. the government hopes that this can continue, but no one is sure exactly how. what scientists are desperate to find out is exactly what kind of future relationship there'll be with the european union. will it be like norway and switzerland, which are outside the eu, but in its science programme? for that, they have to pay and accept freedom of movement. or will there be some other unique arrangement for britain? whatever it is, it's going to take some serious negotiation. a key issue is freedom of movement for scientists. of this team of 12 at the francis crick institute, 10 are from eu countries, and they feel uncertain. it is a concern and it is one that plays on all of our minds, and that is possibly leading to at least some people beginning to contemplate offers elsewhere which they may not have contemplated before. the jetstream is building nicely. from researching the jet stream and how it affects our weatherm to investigating the deep ocea

at imperial college in london, mosquitoes are used to investigate a vaccine for malaria, part of a multinationaliterally thousands across the uk benefit from eu funding. the government hopes that this can continue, but no one is sure exactly how. what scientists are desperate to find out is exactly what kind of future relationship there will be with the european union. will it be like norway and switzerland, which are outside the eu, but in its science programme? for that, they have to pay and accept freedom of movement. or will there be some other unique arrangement for britain? whatever it is, it will take some serious negotiation. a key issue is freedom of movement for scientists. of this team of 12 at the francis crick institute, ten are from eu countries, and they feel uncertain. it is a concern, and it is one that plays on all of our minds and that is possibly leading to at least some people beginning to contemplate offers elsewhere which they may not have contemplated before. from researching the jet stream and how it affects our weather... to investigating the deep ocean, british science

to discover more about how plastics behave in the ocean, scientists at imperial college london are takinge track of the pollution. the main aim is to try to understand how plastic moves through the ocean. we want to understand how waves and currents move plastics, how it accumulates and how it affects the environment. we only know about i% of the plastic that we put into the ocean, so we want to understand, for example, how much plastic is going back to the beach. i love paddleboarding and when i first started doing it in london on the canals and rivers, i realised how bad the problem was with plastic pollution. trying to stop plastic getting into the sea in the first place is both lizzie carr's passion and ambition. there were moments i would paddle and i would see things like a coot's nest, one time, that was made up almost entirely of plastic. there were eggs in there. it was this horrifying moment. and i thought, something needs to be done. i need to show people what i'm seeing every time i'm out paddling, just how bad this problem is, inland as well as in the oceans. she has paddlebo

more on this i'm joined by dr david clements an astrophysicist from imperial college london thanks very much for coming in so it's been a really long mission isn't it what for you have been the highlights of this because you well from my point of view the highlight has been the unexpected discovery of the water gazes on the enceladus which demonstrate that there's liquid water underneath the icy surface and who knows what's in that liquid ocean and in terms of how the mission involved it did it start off with i mean it's kind of extended it was through the why it was extended and how that happened well it was extended the original mission length was about four years that's been extended and extended because the expendables the thing that limits the lifetime of the mission which predominantly is the fuel for the rocket so it can change course as it goes around saturn that's now coming to an end. but the original mission was only four years and there was still plentiful rocket fuel at the end of the hour to be able to bring the mission on and on for much longer periods looking at how satu

at imperial college in london, mosquitoes are used to investigate a vaccine for malaria, part of a multinational and literally thousands across the uk benefit from eu funding. the government hopes that this can continue, but no one is sure exactly how. what scientists are desperate to find out is exactly what kind of future relationship there will be with the european union. will it be like norway and switzerland, which are outside the eu, but in its science programme? for that, they have to pay and accept freedom of movement. or will there be some other unique arrangement for britain? whatever it is, it will take some serious negotiation. a key issue is freedom of movement for scientists. of this team of 12 at the francis crick institute, ten are from eu countries, and they feel uncertain. it is a concern, and it is one that plays on all of our minds and that is possibly leading to at least some people beginning to contemplate offers elsewhere which they may not have contemplated before. from researching the jet stream and how it affects our weather... to investigating the deep ocean, british s

he is a space physicist at imperial college london.come to pass, maybe not 202a. probably a bit later than that. but a lot of these things will happen. i‘m personally not back convinced by the whole rockets were travelling around the planet, but this stuff about mars and some early test missions to the moon, i think that will definitely go ahead. who is elon musk? why should we believe all care what he says? elon musk has had a long history of success. he started out in paypal, which everyone uses now. then he went on to form tesla motors, sell electric cars. in an era where people said electric cars arejust era where people said electric cars are just like era where people said electric cars arejust like milk era where people said electric cars are just like milk floats, era where people said electric cars arejust like milk floats, they era where people said electric cars are just like milk floats, they will not go anywhere, now we are seeing great stuff with that. then he formed space x which is what this is all about, one of these e

he is a space physicist at imperial college london. good morning. really? is this possible? claims area possible. i do think some of the claims are a little lofty we know that from him. he is a character, a visionary who is ambitious. the rocket he is developing, the reusable space ships, they have a track record of doing that at spacek ‘s already, the falcon nine, the last 16 landings were flawless. they have reused two of their rockets already. the idea of making space cheaper by reusing rockets rather than jettisoning them, that has worked well for them. the whole commuting thing... i would almost think that his claims about putting people on the moon and putting people on the moon and putting people on the moon and putting people on mars are actually more believable than us using rockets for long haul commutes. let's discuss elon musk for a moment. his name has been bandied about. for anyone who does not know him, a brief history, please. he grew up in south africa and was one of the founders of paypal which is where he got his money. he began with paypal and then he got