Interviews about Technology

We hear about a recent government competition to help us make better use of the web.

For air traffic control, telling the difference between wind turbines and planes using traditional radar has presented...

Cambridge's annual Teslathon brings enthusiastic amateurs get together to show off their home made tesla coils –...

The Joint European Torus, or JET, is the biggest fusion experiment in the world right now - but how does it keep fusion...

So what's the next step towards making fusion power a reality? Steve Cowley explains the plans for the...

A new initiative funding research into cancer imaging could find new ways to spot cancer early, and better ways to...

We know that antibodies must pass from breastmilk to baby's blood, but only now have scientists watched one in the...

Whether or not bacteria stick around in your local hospital isn’t always down to local conditions or cleaning....

A new proposal for an absolutely massive solar power tower in Namibia forces the issue of electricity in Africa -...

A new penguin tracking system can recognise an individual penguin from afar...

The ExoMars rover will be heading off to explore new territory, but will the future of Mars missions be manned or...

Dr Carol Haswell gives Meera Senthilingam a lesson in planet spotting, using techniques known as Winks, Wobbles and...

Carbon sequestration may be our best bet to offset the tonnes of carbon we pump into the atmosphere each year....

Another method often used by athletes to reach their peak performance is to use the best equipment or clothing on the...

Could an Anaconda be the best way to extract power from waves? Possibly not the snake itself, but it's namesake...

Meera met our regular tech correspondent, Chris Vallance, to discover hyper-local news – the newest online development...

Forensic scientists have announced a major breakthrough in crime detection which could lead to hundreds of cold cases...

These days when searching for ancient remains and hidden treasures you don’t need to have the magical map where X marks...

Last week's show was all about Mars, just hours before the Phoenix mission was due to land. So did it touch down...

Airlines often get a lot of criticism from the green movement for the amount of greenhouse gases they emit. But could...

Mark Peplow joins us once again from the Royal Society of Chemistry's magazine, Chemistry World...

Knowing that aeroplanes could self-repair would be extremely reassuring to those who are scared of flying, and Ian Bond...

Meera goes to visit Martin Towner at the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute at the Open University to...

We talk with William Boynton, in charge of Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyser aboard Phoenix, about the imminent landing...