Interviews about Physics

You may have heard of using diamonds to cut glass or harden drill bits, but lasers? Scalpels? Chris Wort joins us from...

So how else can we generate electricity at home? Well Elaine Ball is from Baxi Group – and they’ve developed a...

Solar panels seem to be turning up on rooftops all over the place, but are they really worth using? You may be...

Solar flares can have devastating effects here on Earth, but how do we study them, and what do they do to us?

The human voice is a versatile tool, and changes dramatically throughout life. David Howard studies the voice...

Could we generate electricity from the energy we waste while walking? Professor Max Donelan has developed a way to...

The new standard in black has been discovered! Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic have developed a material using...

Each week we bring you one of Cambridge University's 'Rising Stars' - young researchers bringing you the...

This month, we explore a surface that becomes non-stick at the flip of a switch, visit the Paris of 55 million years...

Rising Star Ben Collie on his work in solitons, important in superconductors and the motors of the future...

Now, we all know what snowflakes are, but have you ever gone out and looked at them properly? They’ve got extremely...

It seems that it’s no longer impressive just to have been able to climb mount Everest; now the goal is to fly over it...

Ben Valsler and Dave Ansell took some of their favourite Kitchen Science experiments to Manchester as part of the...

The Diamond Synchrotron creates very high energy electromagnetic radiation (known as synchrotron light) that scientists...

Chris spoke to Dr Ben Allanach about what we find when we break open an atom...

We spoke to Cristina Lazzeroni, of Birmingham University, about her work using particle accelerators to track down...

Non-stick pans are great, they make it so much easier to clean cooked on scrambled egg! But the Thin Films and...

Non-stick pans are great, they make it so much easier to clean cooked on scrambled egg! But the Thin Films and...

Now, if you listen carefully you will notice that we, in the Naked Scientists are surrounded by paper. We usually try...

Meera went out to find the best bits of the festival, and wound up in crowd control!

How deep can you go? Professional free divers can descend hundreds of feet underwater with no scuba gear, but what...

Fighter pilots need to undergo extreme conditions and still be able to make life or death decisions. How do they train...

This week, Chelsea finds evidence that Mexican food may not have changed much in hundreds of years, while Bob explores...

Biodiesel is one option for powering cars of the future, but another fuel we could use is hydrogen. This has the...