Interviews about Engineering

What happens when you drive in fog? Often low visibility is blamed for accidents in these conditions, but how fast are...

Sally Woodcock talks about the science behind preserving great works of art

Plastic objects are older than we think, and need conserving, says Dr Anita Quye.

Oliver Caroe of St Paul's Cathedral discusses how he looks after one of London's most famous landmarks.

Glasses-free 3D screens normally have to be viewed from a specific angle. Now a team from HP Labs have overcome this...

Store and ignore formats are hard to come by for digital data. Now a team at Harvard university have managed to store...

Planet Earth - polychaete worms

The new Antarctic research station, Halley VI, was designed with scientists in mind. But what are the challenges of...

A spinoff of that Wi-Fi is a Li-Fi. This is a system that uses visible light to send information into mobile devices...

What can neutrons tell us? And how can you study them? Martyn Bull takes Naked Scientist Ben Valsler on a tour of...

The ISIS neutron source is used by a wide range of researchers to understand the properties of materials, and find out...

A novel printing technique can print replacement cartilage in 3d...

A local election result was altered by neutron rain interacting with an e-voting computer. How can we design against...

cases of bed bug infestations we’ve heard are on the rise, but how do you know you’ve actually got them and what can...

Away from the stories of athletes training and stadium building there’s another side to London 2012 that is often...

Aman Dhir explains how his team are taking to the road to help people see the value of hydrogen transportation in their...

Alex Bevan discusses the challenge of storing hydrogen safely and at low pressure...

Sometimes, science and technology may take its role in sport a little too far. So far, that it is then banned for...

Military developments have taken the jet engine in a new direction. Short Take Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL)...

The conditions in a Jet engine - very high temperatures & incredible forces - are very challenging, requiring...

World War Two saw huge developments in aero engines, from the Merlin that powered the Hurricanes and Spitfires deployed...