Physics

A film about scientists. Professor Stephen Curry interviews six different scientists to find how how they got interested and what drives them in their life and work.

Martin Archer is a DJ Physicist. By night he's dropping tunes on his evening show on Kiss FM. By day he works at Imperial College London as a PhD Space Plasma Physicist.

Take a tour of high-speed measurement technology that provides startling insight into the world around us, from electrons to galloping horses. Professor John Tisch delivers his inaugural lecture. Recorded at Imperial College London on 22 July 2011

Professor Tejinder Virdee talks about the CMS experiment currently being conducted at CERN

In the first of two reports from the Cheltenham Science Festival, Simon Levey speaks to Professor Tejinder Virdee about why the Large Hadron Collider might be considered the greatest scientific achievement of the last 10 years.

What you learnt in physics wasn't exactly a lie, but it wasn't the whole truth either. Light can behave in amazing ways with extraordinary consequences. Professor Martin McCall presents his inaugural lecture, held on 2 March 2011.

Tejinder Virdee on what the biggest experiment on Earth can tell us about the building blocks of the universe.

Brian May explains why he swapped his guitar for a telescope to chase zodiacal dust.

Physicist Russell Cowburn on anti-counterfeiting technology that reads the 'fingerprint' of objects such as paper.

Professor Jordan Nash, based at CERN, explains what the LHC will tell us about the universe.