Interviews about Physics

What limits the power of fusion reactors at the moment is how to make an exhaust system that can cope with the extreme...

Why is nuclear waste such a problem? To find out more about how nuclear fission works, the waste it creates and the...

On the 16th of July 1945, the project code name Trinity was put into action. Trinity was the first test of an atomic...

About 12,000 tonnes of radioactive waste is produced around the world every year and at the moment they need to be...

We explore photodynamic therapy and photochemical internalisation - cancer treatments involving lasers...

A few weeks ago on the Naked Scientists, we heard how a highly focused laser beam can be used as if it were a pair of...

Researchers in America have used a very powerful x-ray laser to strip away the electrons from an atom of neon. But...

The key to understanding the behaviour of a volcano must lie, partly at least, in understanding the plumbing system...

With hydrogen tipped as the green fuel of the future, safer, more efficient methods of storage need to be found to make...

Lithium ion batteries are an essential part of most of our everyday lives. For each different job, you're looking...

One of the many new applications of lasers is in the building of tiny, tiny machines. When handling tiny objects, you...

This week, we are celebrating 50 years of the laser and to fill us in on the background of the laser and some of the...

The field of metrology, or measurement, is something that requires a great deal of accuracy. Meera Senthilingam has...

Can nanotechnology make solar cells more efficient? We find out how tweaking a surface at the nano-scale could allow...

Pierre Rivard explains how inflatable wind trubines could help us harness the great winds we see at high altitudes...

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

Meera Senthilingam explores how wind turbines can be designed to withstand the cold temperatures of Antarctica in order...

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

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

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

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

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

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...