Interviews about Physics

Microgravity has serious impacts on the body, including loss of bone, muscle and vision.

Living without gravity can have some serious side effects, as astronaut Stanley G Love found out...

...and it could mean you get glow in the dark curtains.

The bright light emitted from LEDs could be affecting our health...

It started with fire, then light bulbs and now LEDs but how did this come about?

How and why are they so much more efficient than a standard light bulb?

Samsung has announced its phones were catching fire because of the battery...

When the discovery of gravitational waves hit the headlines.

Kat takes on moggies in this mythconception...

How one community has decided to turn the lights down low in the search for darkness...

Does it matter that the light bulb is destroying the night?

...and could it explain why we haven't found any evidence of life beyond Earth?

If you fill out Drake's equation, life beyond Earth is highly probable...

It may be light years away but scientists have developed a nifty way to see if planets around other stars could have...

Alan Calverd explains the physics of the wind section of an orchestra...

The science of how things spin and bounce...

Alan Calverd tells us about some interesting gold rings back in science history...

Would you go to Mars? And if you did, what would it be like to live there?

What do parkour athletes have in common with orang-utans?

Is the golden ratio really represented all throughout nature?

How do you navigate an empty craft through millions of miles of space?

Could our navigation technology actually be getting in the way of looking where we are going?

GPS is useful, but it has a number of problems, and doesn't work well inside buildings. Could a Cambridge startup...

What is GPS, and how does it tell you where you are?