Interviews about Physics

Samsung has announced its phones were catching fire because of the battery...

When the discovery of gravitational waves hit the headlines.

Kat takes on moggies in this mythconception...

How one community has decided to turn the lights down low in the search for darkness...

Does it matter that the light bulb is destroying the night?

...and could it explain why we haven't found any evidence of life beyond Earth?

If you fill out Drake's equation, life beyond Earth is highly probable...

It may be light years away but scientists have developed a nifty way to see if planets around other stars could have...

Alan Calverd explains the physics of the wind section of an orchestra...

The science of how things spin and bounce...

Alan Calverd tells us about some interesting gold rings back in science history...

Would you go to Mars? And if you did, what would it be like to live there?

What do parkour athletes have in common with orang-utans?

Is the golden ratio really represented all throughout nature?

How do you navigate an empty craft through millions of miles of space?

Could our navigation technology actually be getting in the way of looking where we are going?

GPS is useful, but it has a number of problems, and doesn't work well inside buildings. Could a Cambridge startup...

What is GPS, and how does it tell you where you are?

Why does the theme from Jaws leave us quaking, and what makes the Psycho soundtrack so scary?

Can we use science to make the world's most terrifying tune?

Astrophysicist Duncan Forgan describes it as the most exciting mission since Hubble; so what is it that sets Gaia apart...

Surprisingly, scientists are using GCSE maths to figure out where the stars are in our galaxy...

Where's it going? And what's it doing? Here's a whistlestop tour of the probe...

As the sun sets in Cambridge, Chris Smith steps outside the studio with Paul Fellows to examine the state of our night...