Science Interviews

Ozone Depletion and Behavioural Change - Planet Earth Online

Richard Hollingham investigates why ozone depletion sparked unanimous change around the World in 1987 and whether a similar feat could be achieved to fight Climate Change...Jonathan Shanklin, British Antarctic Survey

Finding the Hidden Rules of Society

If we collect enough data about our behaviour, can we start to make models that can begin to reveal the hidden rules of how we behave?Professor Steven Bishop, UCL

Gleaning the mood of the nation

Social scientists have been taking advantage of mobile phones and social networking sites to unobtrusively capture vast amounts of information in order to analyse our behaviour. We discuss how such tactics are deployed...Dr Jason Rentfrow, Cambridge University

Navigating a Taxi Driver's Brain

Qualified London taxi drivers know their way around over 25,000 streets in the capital. And, if you scan their brains, you find that the structure called the hippocampus is much bigger than it is in the average non-taxi driver. But was it bigger to begin with, or did learning London like the backs of their hands trigger the cabbies brains to change? Professor Eleanor Maguire, University College London

Bed Bugs, Night Shifts and Deterring the Affections of Fish...

Bed Bugs travelling from abroad, why night shifts increase a female's chance of diabetes and how to deter the unwanted affection of a fish...Coby Schal, North Carolina State Universitys; An Pan, Harvard University; Safi Darden, Exeter University

Critter of the Month - Cleaner wrasse

We're keeping things spick and span in Critter of the Month, with a little fish that likes to tidy up.Joshua Drew, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

Oysters in Trouble

Another popular piece of seasonal seafood is the oyster, but a new report suggests we should be careful, due to infection of oysters by norovirus...

Adopt a baby lobster

This Christmas, why not adopt a baby lobster?

Eco-friendly fishy pets

Sustainably-caught fish are the perfect gift for aquarium keepers

Rime of the Modern Mariner - retelling of classic poem for our plastic times

The perfect Christmas gift for a book loving, ocean loving friend.

Animating a new route to ocean conservation

Support ocean conservation by sending singing fishy Christmas cardsJoe Jones, Archipelago.co.uk

Buy a slice of the Coral Triangle

This Christmas, buy your loved ones a piece of virtual coral reefLida Pet Soede, WWF Indonesia

Underwater Welding

Welding up at metal pipe doesn't sound terribly tricky, but what about when it's 1 km underwater? Engineer Neil Woodward has pioneered a robotic underwater solution...Neil Woodward, Isotek Oil and Gas Ltd, Cranfield University

The European Shag - Planet Earth Online

Sue Nelson is off in search of the disappearing European shag, which is a sea bird similar to a cormorant....Hannah Grist, University of Aberdeen

Gauging Photo Fakery

Also this week - scientists in the US have developed a computer programme that can spot the degree to which photos have been digitally doctored... Hany Farid, Dartmouth College

The Thames Discovery Programme

Inland waterways can be extremely rich sources of archaeology, and the River Thames - which flows through the middle of London - is awash with history that erosion is now steadily revealing. A project called the Thames Discovery Programme monitors the foreshores, and Meera Senthilingam ventured out at low tide with archaeologist Elliot Wragg at a site in Greenwich, London....Elliott Wragg, Thames Discovery Programme

Studying Shipwrecks

Diving down beneath the waves to discover how archaeologists locate and recover treasure from old shipwrecks...Dave Parham, University of Bournemouth

Heading footballs and Gesturing Ravens

How heading footballs could lead to brain injuries, a new target for drugs against Malaria and more evidence for the cleverness of corvids...Andrew Tobin, University of Leicester; Michael Lipton, Einstein school of Medicine; Thomas Bugnyar, Max Planck School of Ornithology.

Imaging with sound

One technique which will probably be familiar with from medicine is sonography or imaging with sound. To find out how ultrasonic waves can help us see inside metal components, I met Bristol University’s Professor Bruce Drinkwater...Professor Bruce Drinkwater, Bristol University

Imaging with heat

Now most people will have seen a thermal camera - a special type of camera that can detect the far infrared radiation that's emitted by hot things. These are used by rescue workers to find injured people and also by the police to find hiding criminals. They’re also incredibly useful in the world of non-destructive evaluation as the technique of thermography is great at seeing otherwise invisible defects in materials.....Tony Dunhill, Rolls Royce and British Institute of Nondestructive testing