Interviews about Physics

Technology company ABB are working on developing high voltage systems, which they think could transport power further...

Energy sponge technologies soak up excess any energy from the the grid, and then “wring” it back out when less is...

A new “smart” national grid system could control how we use power according to how much is available...

Breathing Buildings, are a Cambridge company who’ve come up with a way to much more efficiently ventilate our homes

Meet a moss-powered radio: scientists have discovered how to tap electricty from plants to power consumer items...

How we can change the lithium ion batteries in your phone or laptop to make them hold more energy.

How do you develop the replacement for the current lithium ion batteries

What a battery is and how do they work?

We enter the world of physics to explore spin and antimatter...

This week a team of astronomers announced that they had detected evidence of primordial gravitational waves. We met one...

Harriet went to one of the biggests events at the Cambridge Science Festival, run by Chaos, to check out some of...

This week a 13-year-old British schoolboy has become the world’s youngest person to carry out nuclear fusion...

UK Science Minister, David Willetts addresses the AAAS Meeting in Chicago, 2014

Refrigeration may be a bigger environmental issue than transporting food around the country...

Can mathematics model the evolution of altruistic microbes that make molecules benefiting other bugs?

Whoosh! Money to burn, or not. Why an alcohol-soaked ten Pound note won't actually singe...

Blown fairy lights are a thing of the past since the strings of incandescent bulbs used to bedeck Christmas trees have...

Why do we put salt on the roads in winter and how did the Victorian's use the same science to make salt in their...

Very cold, weak electron beams have been used to collect large numbers of diffraction patterns from protein...

Could turbine rearrangement increase the amount of energy we get from wind farms?

Dave Ansell and Ginny Smith use cabbage juice to show what effect carbon dioxide has on the atmosphere...

Dave Ansell and Ginny Smith make a volcanic crater using flour and a balloon, as well as answering questions from the...

Dave Ansell and Ginny Smith make a flame Tornado to explain how the weather phenomena form...

What happens to a tunnel in an earthquake? We discover how sand can liquefy...