8 Oct 2016

Half holes & baffling bagels: Nobel science prizes explained

From This Way Up, 12:50 pm on 8 October 2016
Bagels

Photo: (Flickr user Ezra Wolfe CC BY-SA 2.0)

Dr Chris Smith of The Naked Scientists has been trying to make sense of the work behind the Nobel science prizes announced this week.

So what has been recognised, why is it important, and what on earth is topology ("work so baffling it had to be described using bagels" - The Daily Telegraph)?!