Interviews about Physics

Embarrassingly for the average Aussie, as a nation, they're amongst the worst emitters of greenhouse gases on a...

The Square Kilometre Array will be the largest radio telescope device ever constructed - a strong contender for the...

With cyclists reaching speeds of up to 100 kilometres an hour on descents down mountains, and wanting to preserve their...

Fergal Grace explains how a well timed and well controlled diet can provide the energy for endurance...

Alex Gadsden tells us about his pedal-powered washing machine - how it works and what it can do.

Turning a farm into a city and then back again, is no easy feat. For the festival to run smoothly there must be...

Stand-up comedian Josie Long, performing in the cabaret tent, feels that politics and environmental messages have a...

The Glastonbury organisers pride themselves on doing as much possible to reduce their impact - not just on the farm...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...