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4. Match the sentences 1), 2), 3) with the advances a, b, c in 3.

1) “They are able to perform non-destructive inspection techniques for a wide range of applications from industrial inspection, surveillance, and security.”

(Dr Tariq Sattar, Department of Electrical, Computer & Communications Engineering, London South Bank University)

2) “It offers scientists novel applications in the field of biomedical sciences, and we are focusing on harnessing this potential to advance healthcare diagnostics and therapeutics, including localised therapy for cancer treatment”.

(Dr Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh, the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory at the Royal Institution of Great Britain)

3) “It will revolutionize astronomy, allowing us to study the Universe in great detail, from  planetary systems around nearby stars, to the most distant galaxies formed when the Universe was only a tenth of its current age.”

(Professor Colin Cunningham, the UK Astronomy Technology Centre of the Science and Technology Facilities Council)

5. Role play. Imagine that you are at the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition.

Group 1: You play the expert scientists of the UK. Study the information

from 3 again and be ready to answer the journalists’ questions about

the UK’s most exciting scientific innovations.

Group 2: You play the journalists who ask the expert scientists questions

about the UK’s most exciting scientific innovations.

Write down questions you would like to ask about these innovations.

6. Listen to the interview with a scientist from the Space Flight Center. She appears in a new National Geographic Channel series "Known Universe." While listening tick the correct sentences.

1) The universe began about 30 billion years ago.

2) The whole extent of the universe is just the amount we can see.

3) NASA scientists are becoming the first sort of interplanetary weather forecasters.

4) She prefers ‘Battlestar Galactica’ to ‘Star Trek’.

7. Listen again and fill in the gaps:

Interviewer: Is this your first time being in a space documentary? Scientist: No, I sort of come whenever NASA calls. When someone wants to talk to a NASA I usually show up. I've done a lot of television before. Interviewer: You talk about the immense size of the universe. So how big is it? Scientist: That's actually quite a matter of debate right now. In one sense it's very easy, there's the visible universe. The universe began about … billion years ago and the visible universe is basically anywhere that light has had a chance to travel to us from that time.

We actually don't think that's the whole extent of the universe, that's just the amount we can see. The universe if probably much bigger than that, it may be infinite it may be not. Some of our … suggests there may be other universes, parallel universes.

Interviewer: What is an exoplanet?

Scientist: An exoplanet is a planet outside oursystem. NASA actually now has honest to goodness real data on what the … is like on some of these planets. In a real way we're becoming the first sort of interplanetary weather forecasters.

Interviewer: And finally, "BattleStar Galactica" or "Star Trek"?Scientist: Or lord, how can you decide between those two? I did get addicted to "BattleStar Galactica," but I have to say I'm a Trekkie by heart as I've been a "Star Trek" fan all my life.

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