Seasons & Episodes
Mediterranean Mystery
The five scientists are taken to a mystery location in the Mediterranean. Their first challenge is to determine their la
Simmering Shutterbugs
The castaways are challenged to create an electric battery from natural materials, a power meter for testing the battery
Power Supplies
Moving on from the battery in episode 2, this time the scientists face the challenge of building an electric generator t
Sustenance and Sayonara
The team are asked to create soap and toothpaste using only ingredients they can find in the wild, and a record player f
Mapping It Out
The second series takes five scientists to the Carribean island of Carriacou, where their first challenge is to create a
Bugs and Barometers
Cut off from their usual laboratory equipment, the team are challenged to create their own from scratch - including a mi
Time and Transmitters
The team turn their attention to communication in the third episode from Carriacou. Kate challenges them to build a tran
Feel the Heat
Keeping cool is the focus of the latest batch of scientific challenges. Using only the basic equipment provided, plus wh
Sun and Sea
The Rough Scientists are challenged to devise an underwater lighting system to help them explore the waters around Carri
The Science of Celebration
With the team about to leave their tropical island base, it's time for a party. The team face the challenge of creating
Gold Rush
In the first set of gold-mining challenges in New Zealand's Westland National Park, Ellen, Mike B and Mike L attempt to
Shakers
Mike L, Kathy and Jonathan are set the task of building an automated gold-panning machine, while Ellen is challenged to
Quakers
Ellen's task this week is to devise a way of waterproofing a tent that Mike B and Mike L will take on an expedition to s
Ice
The entire team are taken on a journey to the Franz Josef glacier and must pool their knowledge to work out both how fas
Treasure Hunt
With the team's time in New Zealand running out, Kate offers the team some extra gold to help them make their jewelery.
The Big Smelt
The culmination of the group's New Zealand adventure. The team have found enough gold to carry out their final task, but
Rover
Week one's challenges are heavily focused on the "exploration" theme. Jonathan's challenge is to make a rover; a remote
Communication
No space mission can succeed without communication, so our second set of Rough Science space challenges are all based ar
Spacesuit
Although everyone thinks of space as very cold, in fact, if you stood on the sunny side of the moon, the temperature wou
Impact
This week's programme is all about meteorites and asteroids. Not too far from the Rough Science base on the edge of Deat
Aerial Surveyor
In Programme One the Rough Scientists had to make a Mars Rover which could explore strange new worlds. This week Kathy a
Rocket
Our final set of Rough Science space challenges are all about rockets. Mike, Jonathan and Kathy have to make three diffe
Shipwrecked
The Rough Scientists are sent to a nearby wreck which offers a whole new artificial habitat for plants and fish. As in e
Lost at Sea
It’s a dark tropical night and Kate has fallen overboard and is in need of rescue. Mike has to build a distress flare,
Call of the Wild
The waters around Zanzibar are teeming with life and they are surprisingly noisy. The team’s challenge this week is to
To the Lighthouse
The team have to build a lighthouse on an outlying island which does not have electricity. Challenge one is for Ellen an
The Reef
This week the scientists are set their most environmentally friendly challenge yet – to protect a coral reef. The reef
Beneath the Waves
It’s the final challenge and perhaps the most dangerous yet. The scientists have to make a SCUBA device so that Kate c
Power
Kicking off the new series of Rough Science, at their high altitude base in the Rocky Mountains, the team attempt to mak
Safety
For this programme the team are tackling two environmental hazards: fire and pollution. Fire is a major hazard in the
Mountain
The Rough Science base this year sits on the slopes of a magnificent mountain: Mount Kendall. And for this week’s chal
Clean
Three challenges down, and by now the team are starting to look a little worse for wear - and to be honest, they’re no
Mine
Fresh and spiffing after last week's cleaning challenges, our Rough Scientists are about to get all messy again. This we
Photo
The Rough Science team face their final challenge. They must take a memento of the mill and send it, by air, along a val
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