Interviews about Engineering

Why, when the rest of us have been sat in an economic downturn, has the satellite industry been booming?

If we can make artificially intelligent machines, they'll need a body, but that's not very easy...

NASA plans to set fire to a space station, simply to find out what will happen.

Could we dry blood so that is could be stored forever and transported with ease?

Can we make circuits that are more flexible than silicon?

How much can helium actually lift? Could it lift a giant hose into space?

Energy transportation is far from ideal and lots is lost along the way, how can a levitating superconductor help change...

Superbugs last days on doorhandles. But if we made them from copper they could kill microbes in seconds. How does the...

All processes give off waste energy and more and more technology is being developed that harnesses that energy in a...

Blueprints for 3D printed plastic guns may be released online - are these a threat to security?

Spider-man would either need to be very small, or have size 89 feet, to manage to stick to buildings...

Everyone enjoys an experiment. That's particularly true of Georgia Mills when she got Chris Smith to walk on...

Could Santa use a tech-upgrade to save some time on Christmas Eve?

The Mi.Mu gloves control music with gesture and Connie Orbach was lucky enough to try them on.

What do you do when someone hands you there favourite toy? Crash it of course!

In October we spent a whole month planning our Naked Scientists trip to Mars, here's a snapshot of what we got up...

Computer coding and music seem like they're worlds apart but actually they're remarkably compatible as Kat...

Geoff Baldwin is using nanocages to target cancer drugs to tumours, leaving healthy cells unharmed.

tephen Chambers is CEO of SynbiCITE - a national centre set up to turn bright ideas in synthetic biology into...

Paul Freemont is co-director and co-founder of the Imperial College synthetic biology hub, told me about the...

Abbey Road studio has a history in music technology but now it's getting back involved with a hub for startups,...

The digitalisation of music has profoundly impacted the workings of the music industry, but is this a bad thing?

When the water rises, what can we do about it? Can we escape or do we need to learn to live with it?

Kat Arney tackles a long held myth that glass is a liquid...