Latest Interviews


The surprising creativity of digital evolution

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A creative machine may seem like somewhat of a paradox. We tend to think machines do strictly what …

Mind on matter - Mark Miodownik speaks up for Materials Science

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

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

Relaunching the power of fluorine

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DuPont 2015 Chemistry Student Award winner Sébastien Alazet talks fluorine and how to reinvigorate …

Hunting whistlers in the bush

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 5 Aug 2015

Deep in the Australian Outback, testbed studies for the Square Kilometer Array have made it possibl…

Eduardo Miranda and musical slime mould

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 15 Jul 2015

A musical ‘duet’ between slime mould and a scientist creates beautiful and unusual sounds. Professo…

Time to put a bug in the system?

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 8 Jul 2015

Population growth is set to place an incredible demand on food production – could it be met with th…

What will follow the James Webb Space Telescope?

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 17 Jun 2015

Scientists are calling for a giant space telescope to follow the James Webb Space Telescope – Profe…

Outreach: the gift that keeps on giving

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Rebecca Allen tells us about her positive experience with public outreach and why scientists should…

Hiding in plain sight

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 28 May 2015

What was the fate of the compact massive galaxies that populated the early Universe? This has been …

Capturing elusive anti-atoms

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 28 May 2015

For the first time, scientists at CERN have measured the charge of an anti-atom to high precision. …

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No - it’s a snake...seriously, a flying snake.

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No - it’s a snake...seriously, a flying snake. Jake Socha, professor a…

Going with the flow for medicine assembly line

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Kerry Gilmore tells us how he is planning to revolutionise the individual batch approach to drug pr…

Chemistry in the perfect coffee

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 18 Mar 2015

Computational chemistry and coffee; not – you might imagine – natural bedfellows. But Theoretical a…

The science of ‘dressgate’

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 13 Mar 2015

White and gold or blue and black? That’s the question behind a record-breaking twitter storm – so w…

Using the force...

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 11 Mar 2015

Dr Loren Picco is the founder of NanoDynamics, a spin-out of Bristol University aiming to revolutio…

New approach puts kids in space!

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 11 Feb 2015

Crossing the traditional boundaries of education and active research – the Langton Star Centre is n…

What inspires two Industrial Fellowship winners

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 23 Jan 2015

Alice Hagan is working with Biocompatibles UK Ltd and the University of Brighton to develop beads c…

Operation Cloud Lab: Secrets of the Skies

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 16 Jan 2015

In 2013, Dr Jim McQuaid took to the skies in an airship to find out what causes clouds – the result…

We're living in the Quantum Age, says Brian Clegg

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 19 Dec 2014

In his latest book, Brian Clegg looks at how the physics of the very small has transformed our live…

How do we tackle science’s diversity problem?

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 15 Dec 2014

Type in ‘is science elitist?’ into google and you’re immediately faced with a plethora of articles …