Interviews about Engineering

From the efforts that preceded the Wright brother's official first sustained heavier-than-air-flight, through to...

How proteins could help clear away Huntington's disease...

Super bainite's strength means it might make an excellent armour - but punching holes in it might make it even...

What are the environmental dangers of nanoparticles? They're a fraction the size of a human hair, so could they...

Alan Begg discusses how new materials are changing the field of ball bearings...

We discover a new variety of steel that's super strong...

A unique and explosive demonstration has given people an opportunity to watch a supersonic high-explosive detonation...

How can mathematical modeling make better buildings? Meera Senthilingham visited the newly refurbished Kings Cross...

How music can make children more empathetic, the electrical charge of cracked materials, the slow extinction of the...

Metal alloys are mixtures of different chemical elements - adding certain elements can make a metal harder, others can...

Once we have a recipe for a new metal, how do we find out if it lives up to its initial promise? We find out how...

We find out how a novel alloy makes the leap from academia to aeroplane...

Water sources below Africa, potential anti-cancer effects of Aspirin, a new polymer for cheaper solar cells and how...

Submarines, manned or unmanned have been vital in learning about the deep sea as well as playing an essential role as...

Jonathon Morrison explains how current nuclear reactors are kept running despite problems such as material deposition...

Eric Lowen explains how the efficiency of the new PRISM reactors and how these new designs overcome previous reactor...

Scientists have taken the first steps towards interrogating anti-matter and find out more about this mysterious...

Rolls Royce engines are regularly inspected to keep them in tiptop condition and running efficiently, but to do so...

Cynthia Carliell-Marquet from the University of Birmingham discusses recycling and sharing out the phosphate resources...

Incredible as it sounds, over 70% of the energy released when you burn the fuel in your car gets wasted as heat....

Qualified London taxi drivers know their way around over 25,000 streets in the capital. And, if you scan their brains...

Welding up at metal pipe doesn't sound terribly tricky, but what about when it's 1 km underwater...

One technique which will probably be familiar with from medicine is sonography or imaging with sound. To find out how...

Now most people will have seen a thermal camera - a special type of camera that can detect the far infrared radiation...