Interviews about Engineering

New technologies to assist the ability of the human body to repair itself

Matt Burnett discovers how the bladder of a sturgeon fish can help restore ancient manuscripts....

Could buildings be designed to repair themselves?

Nine missing Doctor Who episodes were found this year. How they were restored?

What does tunnelling under big cities turn up for archaeologists?

How did Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his father construct the first under-river tunnel?

How do the tunelling machines digging a new underground train tunnel in London actually work?

How can you make a tiny fridge using an elastic band?

Ginny Smith and Dave Ansell put crisp packets in a microwave - what will the result be?

Material Scientist, Caroline Goddard, explains how new alloys are made and how you select metals for different tasks...

Technological advances have revolutionised tennis since the last british winner of the men's Wimbledon singles...

A Cambridge team test the limits of solar power as they prepare to race a car across the Australian outback fueled only...

How do we know dark matter exists and how do we detect it?

One of the founders of Ecovative Design explains how they use mushroom mycelium to replace plastic foam and building...

Scientists are working out how Hep B and Hep D are entering liver cells, research that could help up to a third of the...

What happens when you drive in fog? Often low visibility is blamed for accidents in these conditions, but how fast are...

Sally Woodcock talks about the science behind preserving great works of art

Plastic objects are older than we think, and need conserving, says Dr Anita Quye.

Oliver Caroe of St Paul's Cathedral discusses how he looks after one of London's most famous landmarks.

Glasses-free 3D screens normally have to be viewed from a specific angle. Now a team from HP Labs have overcome this...

Store and ignore formats are hard to come by for digital data. Now a team at Harvard university have managed to store...

Planet Earth - polychaete worms

The new Antarctic research station, Halley VI, was designed with scientists in mind. But what are the challenges of...

A spinoff of that Wi-Fi is a Li-Fi. This is a system that uses visible light to send information into mobile devices...