Science & Engineering

Career profiles

Career profiles

What do mathematicians do all day?

Expanding Universe

Expanding Universe

The Sun is just one of around two hundred billion stars orbiting around a super-massive black hole at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. In turn, the Milky Way is just one of around two hundred billion galaxies in the Universe.

Engineering in action

Engineering in action

If you are thinking at all about a career in engineering, then the videos on this page are for you. Engineers from five diverse sectors talk about their careers, as well as giving real life examples of where they use A-level maths.

Microwave oven

Microwave ovens

Why is mathematics crucial to the design of the microwave?

Weighing the World

Weighing the world

Find out how the world was weighed, through mathematics, on a soggy mountain in Scotland.

Non-Newtonian fluid

Non-Newtonian fluids

When stressed, this class of fluids begin to behave very strangely indeed: they can get thicker or thinner, some instantly and some over time.

Quantum computation

Quantum computation

Down beneath everything we know lies another world. A world where nothing is forever, nothing is impossible, and nothing is certain.