Interviews about Engineering

Lawrence Jones is stuck beneath ten feet of snow. How can his friends find him in time?

Adrian asks: why would a used battery bounce on its end more than a full one? Phil Sansom explains...

Meet the material that turns into a solid when pushed...

And why, apart from being super-strong, bamboo also have some interesting thermal properties...

As good as silicon, but a fraction of the weight and price...

What can we do to fix recycling?

Some are skeptical about whether recycling even works...

When you put something in the recycling bin, where does it actually go?

A new polymer that sticks without glue

How can designers improve predictive text entry systems?

What was the 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry all about?

How can we toughen up glass?

We take a trip into a glass factory

One of the world's most famous codes, and how it was broken...

The part of the show where we read out your correspondence...

Skin is one of our most important - and largest - organs. But sometimes it's in the firing line...

It's advised to do 10,000 steps a day - that's 3.65 million steps every year and our hips are taking the hit.

Meet the scientist cutting down infections from catheters...

What are dental implants made from? And how are they made?

Who's behind the brainy panel this week?

Up close and personal with a honeybee

How do we reduce the emissions released from planes every year?

We find out if Naked Scientist Matthew Hall can land a flight simulator...

Fully electric cars are everywhere now, why is there still no Tesla equivalent for aeroplanes?