- Dan Gollub
Dan looks at dream interpretation again and may reveal that meaningful dream interpretation can reliably be accomplished despite the endless diversity of dream content.
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- Nick Heath
Mention plastics and most people think of polythenes, perspex and other oil-based nasties that never break down. But now there's a new breed of plastics; they're biodegradable and based on potatoes and other starchy crops...
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- Douglas Richards
Sure, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and has received a number of other honours, but has Sir Tim Berners-Lee yet received his due? Douglas Richards argues that for a man who brought into being a tool - the hypertext language around which the Internet is based - that will have as profound an impact on human civilization as the wheel or electricity, the answer is an emphatic no...
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- Chris Smith
Ask anyone who made the world’s best violins and they’ll inevitably answer "Stradivari". But science is undermining the reputation of this great instrument maker whom, it seems, owes his success as much to an attempt at pest control as his craftmanship...
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- Nick Humphrey
One day someone will write a book that explains consciousness. The book will put forward a theory that fills the gap between conscious experience and brain activity, but we aren't there yet.
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- Peter McNaughton
We all know about pain, or at least we think we do. Things that damage our bodies cause pain. But do you always feel pain when you have been injured, or have to be injured to feel pain, how is pain signalled by nerve cells, and how can drugs be engineered to control pain?
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- Danielle Turner
Can we all be brilliant? Bit by bit thousands of researchers are trying to untangle the workings of the brain. But how near are we to understanding what turns some people's brains on and gives them a competitive advantage?
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- Peter Brennan
We humans don't really appreciate the sense of smell. Mark has a look at this underrated sense, in various parts of the animal kingdom. Peter Brennan describes how smells called pheromones can influence our sexual behaviour and how pheromones work
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- Bob Bury
Ultrasound Scans (USS), and now Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), allows us to visualise body tissues in high resolution, without the risks associated with the use of ionising radiation such as X-Rays. Bob Bury explains how ultrasound scans and MRI scanning works.
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- Anders Aufderhorst-Roberts
In Lewis Carroll’s "Through the Looking-Glass", The Red Queen tells Alice that she has to run as quickly as possible just to stay in the same place. Similarly, biologists coined the phrase “Red Queen Theory” to highlight how all species are in a constant race for survival that ultimately ends with the evolution of a range of new species. Anders Aufderhorst-Roberts finds out how it works.
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