Science Interviews

Cyborgs And Upgrading Humans

Dr. Kevin Warwick, University of Reading Chris - You were saying earlier that the whole point of putting implants into humans is to make them better. Do we really need to do that?

Humanising Machines

Professor William Clocksin, Oxford Brookes University Chris - we've been talking about making man more like a machine, but you work on trying to make machines more humanised.

Why Birds Eggs Have Speckles

Dr Andrew Gosler, Oxford University

An Anti-smoking And Anti-cocaine Vaccine

Dr. Campbell Bunce Campbell - We've come up with a novel way to help addicts kick both the smoking and cocaine habit: a kind of anti-addiction vaccine. Using the vaccine helps to prevent the high people get from t

How Smoking Harms your Iq in Old Age

Professor Lawrence Whalley Lawrence - We looked at archives of peoples' IQ tests from 1932 and 1947. We used this childhood data to look at lifelong changes in mental ability. These people are now old and we are

Gambling Addiction

Professor Mark Griffiths

The Brain-science of Addiction

Professor Barry Everitt

Cassini-huygens Mission To Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon

Prof. John Zarnecki

Chris

Why does the government need a UFO desk and when was it set up?

The MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) Problem

Dr Mark Farrington Chris - We are told that MRSA kills 5000 people per year. What is MRSA and where did it come from?

Dr. Liz Sockett. Liz

Bdellovibrio are natural, tiny predatory bacteria that have other bacteria as their main food. Their strategy is to break into bacterial cells, close up the hole behind them suck their guts out! Having dissolved the inside of

Bacteriophage (phage) Therapy

Professor Nick Mann

A Vaccine For Cervical Cancer

Professor Margaret Stanley.

The Epidemic of Sexually Transmitted Infections

Sarah Edwards

Swift

NEW SATELLITE TO SEEK OUT GAMMA RAY BURSTS (GRBs) - Dr. Julian Osbourne

The Ozone Hole

THE WHOLE STORY - Brian Gardiner