Interviews about Engineering

Interviews about engineering, civil engineering, manufacturing, jet engines, materials science and transport...

25 November 2012

What can neutrons tell us? And how can you study them? Martyn Bull takes Naked Scientist Ben Valsler on a tour of...

25 November 2012

The ISIS neutron source is used by a wide range of researchers to understand the properties of materials, and find out...

25 November 2012

A novel printing technique can print replacement cartilage in 3d...

25 November 2012

A local election result was altered by neutron rain interacting with an e-voting computer. How can we design against...

11 November 2012

cases of bed bug infestations we’ve heard are on the rise, but how do you know you’ve actually got them and what can...

13 September 2012

Away from the stories of athletes training and stadium building there’s another side to London 2012 that is often...

21 August 2012

Aman Dhir explains how his team are taking to the road to help people see the value of hydrogen transportation in their...

21 August 2012

Alex Bevan discusses the challenge of storing hydrogen safely and at low pressure...

31 July 2012

Sometimes, science and technology may take its role in sport a little too far. So far, that it is then banned for...

20 July 2012

Military developments have taken the jet engine in a new direction. Short Take Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL)...

20 July 2012

The conditions in a Jet engine - very high temperatures & incredible forces - are very challenging, requiring...

20 July 2012

World War Two saw huge developments in aero engines, from the Merlin that powered the Hurricanes and Spitfires deployed...

20 July 2012

From the efforts that preceded the Wright brother's official first sustained heavier-than-air-flight, through to...

13 July 2012

How proteins could help clear away Huntington's disease...

10 July 2012

Super bainite's strength means it might make an excellent armour - but punching holes in it might make it even...

10 July 2012

What are the environmental dangers of nanoparticles? They're a fraction the size of a human hair, so could they...

10 July 2012

Alan Begg discusses how new materials are changing the field of ball bearings...

10 July 2012

We discover a new variety of steel that's super strong...

09 July 2012

A unique and explosive demonstration has given people an opportunity to watch a supersonic high-explosive detonation...

01 July 2012

How can mathematical modeling make better buildings? Meera Senthilingham visited the newly refurbished Kings Cross...

12 June 2012

How music can make children more empathetic, the electrical charge of cracked materials, the slow extinction of the...

20 May 2012

Metal alloys are mixtures of different chemical elements - adding certain elements can make a metal harder, others can...

20 May 2012

Once we have a recipe for a new metal, how do we find out if it lives up to its initial promise? We find out how...

20 May 2012

We find out how a novel alloy makes the leap from academia to aeroplane...