Latest Interviews


Looking under the hood of AI

Added: 16 Jan 2024

Royal Institution lecturer Professor Mike Wooldridge expands on the scientific and ethical dimensio…

An end to the guesswork

Added: 9 May 2023

A chance request spurred a family firm to install a high-tech lab that has brought unprecedented ac…

Understanding menopause in your workforce

Added: 1 Mar 2022

While jumping at the chance to tell her personal story about how menopause has affected her work, t…

How to gain Chinese regulation compliance

Added: 12 Nov 2021

Dr Paul Orange outlines the project which led to his involvement in the new Chinese battery protoco…

Construction robotics - research and innovation from China

Added: 12 Nov 2021

While advances in robotic automation have revolutionised manufacturing over past decades, assemblin…

Pandemic accelerates automation in the lab sector

Added: 15 Oct 2021

Laboratories are just one of the many businesses that were forced to adapt operations because of th…

An ode to imagination

Added: 15 Jan 2020

Frustrated by siloed science, Dr Jennifer Rohn bemoans the lack of cross-disciplinary imagination t…

Five things you learn from working in cleanrooms

Added: 19 Aug 2019

Want to avoid committing a serious faux pas before you start working in cleanrooms? That would be h…

In his element

Added: 29 Jul 2019

We spoke to astrobiologist Robert Hazen whose new book, Symphony in C, draws parallels between carb…

Just play the game

Added: 10 Jun 2019

Games have never been more popular – but can they really help in the teaching of science? You bet y…

One man’s trash

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Plastics have become a deeply worrying environmental issue, but it is unlikely that demand will dro…

Using science to change our world

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As the Royal Institution sets it sights on expanding the public understanding of science, we hear f…

The art of taking things apart

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Science presenter, broadcaster and even physical phenomena namer… we spent a minute with Steve Moul…

A weight off your mind

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 7 Aug 2018

Fiona Auty explains why the National Physical Laboratory is going to the immense trouble of redefin…

Taking on the resistance

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 12 Jan 2018

It is no secret that there is a desperate need for a response to antimicrobial resistance, so what …

Plastic (not so) fantastic

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 11 Jan 2018

Microplastic pollution of the oceans is a deadly ecological problem, yet oddly we cant find 99% of …

Heart of glass

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 12 Jan 2017

Paul Le Pinnet is SOG Group’s Chief Scientific Glassblower. He is a fellow of The British Society o…

A hole new approach

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Jemma Rowlandson tells us how nanoporous materials are set to take on the world, and win

Mind on matter - Mark Miodownik speaks up for Materials Science

qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 14 Sep 2015

Professor Mark Miodownik, Materials Scientist, Engineer and Broadcaster tells us about his current …