Interviews about Physics

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

04 May 2012

Solar cells waste much of the energy from the Sun because they cannot use it efficiently, but Per-Anders Hansen from...

02 April 2012

This week has seen NAM2012 - the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting. Over 1000 delegates got...

30 March 2012

How drug-resistant bacteria could be combatted using chemical compounds, pesticides causing declines in bumblebee...

27 March 2012

Jonathon Morrison explains how current nuclear reactors are kept running despite problems such as material deposition...

27 March 2012

Eric Lowen explains how the efficiency of the new PRISM reactors and how these new designs overcome previous reactor...

27 March 2012

We have a challenge to supply our growing demand for electricity whilst reducing our carbon emissions. Is nuclear the...

11 March 2012

Scientists have taken the first steps towards interrogating anti-matter and find out more about this mysterious...

19 February 2012

Portable, tuneable lasers would be a breakthrough for medical diagnostics on the road. Cambridge researchers have...

19 February 2012

Light Blue Optics is a Cambridge based company developing lasers to project images and to turn any surface into a touch...

19 February 2012

We investigate how XUV light in bursts as short as 30 femtoseconds can be used to probe the fundamental properties of...

12 February 2012

Incredible as it sounds, over 70% of the energy released when you burn the fuel in your car gets wasted as heat....

12 February 2012

Powering space craft is a challenge. Traditional chemical batteries go flat and for deeper space explorations where...

25 January 2012

Gravitational lensing is allowing us to detect things we otherwise wouldn't be able to see. Oxford University’s...

23 January 2012

How do you run a synchrotron?

23 January 2012

The latest discoveries at Diamond...

23 January 2012

How to stay safe in a synchrotron...

23 January 2012

Who are the engineers and technicians who keep Diamond operating?