Interviews about Engineering

What can cities do to reduce the risk of flooding? Professor Nigel Wright, from Leeds University, explains the Blue-...

Jenny Mant, from the River Restoration Centre, explains how we manage river levels and how we can stop rivers from...

How was a marsh turned into farmland centuries ago?

We have to get our food from where it’s grown to where we buy it and to our houses. What can we do to try and reduce...

Examining Chris' shopping bag to find out the carbon footprint of his weekly shop.

Plans for making nanoparticles might be in their early stages, but some are looking to the future and how we can sort...

How do you use nanoparticles to make sensors from gold?

A team of researchers are using tiny structures to make new optical materials, including a polymer which changes colour...

A light-activated, blood-resistant glue has been developed to use in minimally invasive cardiac procedures...

New technologies to assist the ability of the human body to repair itself

Matt Burnett discovers how the bladder of a sturgeon fish can help restore ancient manuscripts....

Could buildings be designed to repair themselves?

Nine missing Doctor Who episodes were found this year. How they were restored?

What does tunnelling under big cities turn up for archaeologists?

How did Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his father construct the first under-river tunnel?

How do the tunelling machines digging a new underground train tunnel in London actually work?

How can you make a tiny fridge using an elastic band?

Ginny Smith and Dave Ansell put crisp packets in a microwave - what will the result be?

Material Scientist, Caroline Goddard, explains how new alloys are made and how you select metals for different tasks...

Technological advances have revolutionised tennis since the last british winner of the men's Wimbledon singles...

A Cambridge team test the limits of solar power as they prepare to race a car across the Australian outback fueled only...

How do we know dark matter exists and how do we detect it?

One of the founders of Ecovative Design explains how they use mushroom mycelium to replace plastic foam and building...

Scientists are working out how Hep B and Hep D are entering liver cells, research that could help up to a third of the...