Interviews about Physics

Interviews about cosmology, astrophysics, electricity, energy, forces, gravity, light and maths...

30 June 2013

What can we learn from huge surveys of the sky?

30 June 2013

The surfaces of asteroids may be so unstable, that any attempt to land on one might cause long-distance avalanches of...

30 June 2013

The Dark Energy Survey has found 200 candidate supernovae at great distances, providing a test for dark energy.

30 June 2013

The Dark Energy Survey has found 200 candidate supernovae at great distances, providing a test for dark energy.

30 June 2013

Can gravitational lenses make distant quasars appear significantly brighter and easier to detect?

30 June 2013

Can gravitational lenses make distant quasars appear significantly brighter and easier to detect?

30 May 2013

Naked Scientist Dominic Ford hopped on a train to find out how LED technology is being commercialised in the UK's...

30 May 2013

Do energy saving lightbulbs affect your sleep cycle? We find out.....

25 April 2013

New biofuel from gut-bugs - Dr. Love discusses the potential of E. Coli as the next fuel generator.

21 March 2013

The UK has a potential wealth of tidal energy, as Richard Hollingham discovered at Liverpool's Albert Docks...

12 March 2013

How turtles mate, and the prospects for sub-sea energy generation.

25 February 2013

Dr Jonathan Shanklin may be better known as one of the men who discovered the hole in the ozone layer. So why the...

07 February 2013

This month Asteroid 2012 DA14 a 130.000 Ton lump of rock will pass just 24,000 km from Earth. That’s closer than many...

07 February 2013

A number of enterprising individuals are developing ways to harvest and mine asteroids for the minerals that they may...

07 February 2013

How did the solar system, from massive gas planets like Jupiter down to tiny asteroids, form? New computer modelling...

18 December 2012

We find out how microphones capture sound by asking Naked Scientist Dave Ansell if he could build one from scratch, and...

25 November 2012

What can neutrons tell us? And how can you study them? Martyn Bull takes Naked Scientist Ben Valsler on a tour of...

25 November 2012

The ISIS neutron source is used by a wide range of researchers to understand the properties of materials, and find out...

21 October 2012

Stand Up Maths and the Festival of the Spoken Nerd