Interviews about Physics

Professor Frank Fish explains how a sculpture of a humpback whale triggered a whole new design for wind turbines...

Michael Spagat discusses how insurgent events can be modelled to deal with future attacks...

Bill Proud explains how the shockwaves created by explosions affect other materials, including human tissue...

Graham McShane explains what happens when you blow things up, both on land and under water...

For the final show on 2009, and the decade, the team look back on some of the year's "Naked-Scientific"...

For hundreds of years composers have been creating beautiful and complex pieces of music, written to be sung by many...

Chris Smith finds out about the most distant object ever discovered and how this has improved our understanding of our...

This week in Science History saw the birth of Tetsuya Fujita, also known as Ted and ‘Mr Tornado’. Fujita dedicated his...

Richard Van Noorden reveals the winners of this years Nobel Science prizes as well as an insight into why their work...

We find out what Researchers Revealed was all about and meet the host for the evening, John Tickle to find out what he...

How many licks does it take to eat a lollipop? How many ants would you need to carry a person? Aaron Santos' new...

This week in science history saw, in 1968, the death of Otto Hahn, the German chemist who co-discovered nuclear fission...

It turns out that the jockey's amusing posture has some serious physics behind it. Andrew Spence tells us more...

This Week in Science History saw in 1919, the solar eclipse that proved Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity...

How can we solve the problem of steering articulated trailers independently? Andrew Odhams believes he has the answer.

The European Space Agency has launched the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer, or GOCE for short...

This week in 1853 saw the death of Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist and father of the Doppler effect - one of the...

You've heard the saying "lies, damned lies and statistics", now Ben Goldacre joins us to talk about how...

After Dave had built a rudimentary telescope from a pair of magnifying lenses, we asked Dr Carolin Crawford for her...

How can nanotechnology tell us about antibiotic resistant bacteria? - With tiny diving boards, of course...

A car which silently repairs scratched paintwork, chipped windscreens or engine faults sounds fantastic, and may not be...

So what's the next step towards making fusion power a reality? Steve Cowley explains the plans for the...

Electricity from fusion could be a great alternative to traditional coal-fired power stations, supplying cheaper,...

How could lasers be used to achieve fusion? Kate Lancaster joins us to explain all...