Interviews about Technology

Volcanic lava could offer a solution to storing excess carbon - by turning it into rock! We spoke to Dr Pete McGrail,...

Rising Star Ben Collie on his work in solitons, important in superconductors and the motors of the future...

Technology correspondent Chris Vallance takes us through the new technology on show at the Consumer Electronics Show in...

The internet has revolutionised the way we purchase and use music, but just what is the future for books?

In this week's tech section, Chris Vallance tells us about the DARPA Urban Challenge, and how this could lead to...

This month, we chat to Mark Peplow about the worlds smallest microwave oven, and a microscopic fuel cell.

It seems that it’s no longer impressive just to have been able to climb mount Everest; now the goal is to fly over it...

Ben Valsler and Dave Ansell took some of their favourite Kitchen Science experiments to Manchester as part of the...

The Diamond Synchrotron creates very high energy electromagnetic radiation (known as synchrotron light) that scientists...

Chris spoke to Dr Ben Allanach about what we find when we break open an atom...

We spoke to Cristina Lazzeroni, of Birmingham University, about her work using particle accelerators to track down...

When you're buying training shoes, do you really get what you pay for? Professor Rami Abboud doesn't think...

Machinima - Machine Cinema where characters from computer games perform as actors in home made movies...

Non-stick pans are great, they make it so much easier to clean cooked on scrambled egg! But the Thin Films and...

Non-stick pans are great, they make it so much easier to clean cooked on scrambled egg! But the Thin Films and...

Now, if you listen carefully you will notice that we, in the Naked Scientists are surrounded by paper. We usually try...

Biocomposites, materials similar to plastics but made from biological material, could be the ideal replacement for...

Once a judge on Robot Wars, Professor Noel Sharkey told us about the part robots have to play in real wars...

What do we need robots for in genetics? Just what difference do they make? We sent Meera to the Wellcome Trust Sanger...

The Semantic Robot Vision Challenge was set up to find robots which could locate an object in real space, after only...

Professor Nigel Shadbolt is the President of the British Computer Society - he gave a talk at the BA festival of...

We’re all being asked to lower our carbon footprint and one area where you’d think this would be nearly impossible is...

Biodiesel is one option for powering cars of the future, but another fuel we could use is hydrogen. This has the...

It's all well and good being excited about new fuels, but are the arguments for using them really sound? Can we...