Interviews about Physics

What happens in a vacuum? We remove the air from a bell jar to see if you can scream in space...

Dave Ansell explains how to scare your friends by dropping a mug with seemingly nothing to stop it!

How can you make a tiny fridge using an elastic band?

Ginny Smith and Dave Ansell put crisp packets in a microwave - what will the result be?

Australian radio astronomers are asking volunteers at home to donate computer power to help process their data.

Could chemicals used in the fracking process seep into our drinking water?

Fracking has been linked to earth tremors in Blackpool, but should that be a source of concern?

Escapes of methane from fracking sites could trigger substantial global warming, as methane is a greenhouse gas.

Is fracking an energy source the UK should explore? Or is it a risk too far?

Fracking has been subject of intense global debate in recent months. But what does it involve?

Neuroscientists are getting closer to understanding how people can distinguish where different sounds come from in...

Renewable energy farms can only produce power when the sun shines or the wind blows, but new cheaper batteries allow...

Astronomers are starting to glean some first clues as to what the atmospheres of planets circling around other stars...

Flashes of gamma-ray radiation in the sky have puzzled astronomers for decades, but some may be caused by collisions...

Flashes of gamma-ray radiation in the sky have puzzled astronomers for decades, but some may be caused by collisions...

The Gaia spacecraft, scheduled for launch by the European Space Agency this autumn, will make the most detailed map of...

Agamemnon Otero talks to us about Repowering London, a programme promoting the cooperative ownership of solar energy...

Magneto-hydrodynamic Solar cells use powerful magnets to separate the charges in a solar-produced plasma, generating...

The EU EnAlgae project is aiming to capture the solar energy-harvesting potential of algae for domestic and industrial...

A Cambridge team test the limits of solar power as they prepare to race a car across the Australian outback fueled only...

What can we learn from huge surveys of the sky?

How do we know dark matter exists and how do we detect it?

Can the need for dark matter in cosmology be escaped by modifying the laws of gravity?

What do we know about dark matter and dark energy? Catherine Heymans gives me an update.