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Interviews about Physics
Interviews about cosmology, astrophysics, electricity, energy, forces, gravity, light and maths...
31 May 2011
What is round and measures 1 billionth of a millimetre across? Yes, you guessed it, it’s the electron. Theories have...
09 May 2011
If you live in an old or historical building then you’re also probably aware that there can be downsides too....
03 May 2011
Professor Sang Bok Lee explains how his new device, made up of nanopillars, could provide a radical new way to store...
01 May 2011
Electrodes detect facial muscle movements and translate them into speech...
01 May 2011
The world is united behind a project called ITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor. Later this...
24 April 2011
A new form of solar cell that uses plastic instead of silicone may make solar panels a cheap and effective way of...
19 April 2011
In this week's Planet Earth, Sue Nelson has been along to find out about a European Space Agency mission called...
10 April 2011
To bring us up to date with events at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, and explain how his own work fits in with this...
03 April 2011
Some clouds can be identified easily from the ground. But when weather forecasters and academic researchers need a bit...
25 March 2011
How do you communicate the concept of the Cosmic Microwave Background to families and children. Andrew Pontzen...
20 March 2011
Brian Greene, author of "The Hidden Reality" explains the possibility and probability of there being more...
20 March 2011
Any hypothesis on multiverses will remain just that, a hypothesis, until experimental physicists can find observations...
20 March 2011
Meera and Dave have been out to the Diamond synchrotron, an electron accelerator, based in Didcot, Oxfordshire where...
06 March 2011
Researchers at Rice university have developed a new way to etch structures into stacked piles of graphene, the...
06 February 2011
As the internet and our reliance on computers grows, so does the amount of energy that this industry consumes, which...
31 January 2011
Physical sciences director Trevor Rayment looks back at Diamond's highlights and developments in 2010...
30 January 2011
Whilst driving on motorways or busy roads at night, many of us will have noticed the small beacons of light in the...
25 January 2011
Gamma ray flashes seemingly coming from thunderstorms have been a mystery since first being identified in 1994. Now,...
25 January 2011
All you need to know about relativity...
23 January 2011
Antimatter is usually thought of as being rather mysterious. But in fact, it is much more abundant than you might...
23 January 2011
In November 2010, researchers at CERN announced that they had managed to make and trap the antimatter equivalent of...
23 January 2011
Meera and Dave explore how PET and MRI scanners can combine to give a better look at what's going on inside us....