Interviews about Technology

Forget wind turbines made from vast sheets of metal - make them from fast-growing bamboo! Jim Platts tells us more.

This month, Chris Vallance tells us about a new generation of eBook readers, and how authors are using social...

Thursday 14th May, all being well, we are going to see the launch of the European Space Agency’s Herschel and Planck...

This week in science history saw, in 1952, the inventor Geoffrey Dummer present his idea of the integrated circuit, now...

Dr. Howard Stone is looking for ways to get the most out of metals as we use them to make jet engine blades. Advances...

Formula 1's a fast paced world where cars can race at up to 220 mph in certain conditions but for these cars to...

How can we solve the problem of steering articulated trailers independently? Andrew Odhams believes he has the answer.

Ben Valsler met up with Jo Dicks, Principal Scientific Officer for Cambridge Council, to find out how urban air quality...

Hand-held environmental monitors would allow people to track their own exposure to pollutants - Professor Rod Jones has...

We sent Meera out and about in Cambridge to find out how to monitor the atmosphere on the move...

This week in science history saw, in 1990, the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the largest and most advanced...

This month's technology update looks at 'home-brew' technology and a step towards interactive, hands...

On the 7th of April 2001, the Mars Odyssey spacecraft was launched to orbit and survey Mars. It has supplied vital...

What's involved in computer research and can we make computers genuinely intelligent?

How the guys at Second Life build their virtual environment and why bots with artifical intelligence might be...

Writer of the DOS game Theme Park, Demis applies his programming techniques to understanding the mechanics of the human...

This week in 1853 saw the death of Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist and father of the Doppler effect - one of the...

A new surface material could heal it's own scratches simply by being left in the sun! Professor Marek Urban...

Diana O'Carroll meets Dr Chris Cox to find out how a mobile phone compresses data, and why we could soon be...

You may take your telephone for granted, but it all started this week in 1876...

Meera catches up with Kelvin Kemm for the latest news from South Africa, including unmanned aeroplanes transporting...

The world's first online music festival - Geek Pop, is dedicated to science inspired music - Vicky West explains...

Often, technology designed for space travel gives us benefits down here on Earth. This is one example of the opposite...

The universe surprised us recently when NASA's GALEX (Galaxy Evolution Explorer) discovered a new dwarf galaxy...