Interviews about Biology

What does stress do to our decision of whether to choice a healthy, or not so healthy, snack?

How distracting are you as a car passenger? The answer could lie in your own driving skills....

How can two very different cheeses be made from the same milk?!

It’s not just us humans that take advantage of fermentation to enhance food. This biochemical process also happens in...

We can use other microbes to unlock flavours and energy locked up chemically in harvested food.

Soil isn’t just a source of water and minerals for plants; it’s a whole ecosystem teeming with microscopic life.

Scientists had overlooked the unlikely hero that helps the ecosystem to defend itself.

The pesky virus invades cells and there are unfortunately no vaccines or drug treatments that can stop it... Yet!

Mitochondrial inheritance has spun the scientific community on its head...

We put the panel to the test with our own cunning questions...

The science behind cooking a delicious turkey...

How can plants survive the cold?

Can blindfolded Naked Scientists distinguish hot food from spicy food?

Our neuroscience experts review the news...

Scientists are working on gels to encourage severed nerve ends to regrow...

In what ways do peripheral nerves get injured?

How a rubbish tip surrendered the remains of the world's first complete skeleton of a flying squirrel...

Sea temperatures affect plankton growth, which in turns alters fish abundance. So warm seas force nursing seals to...

Fossil remains of flowers dating back nearly 200 million years have been uncovered by palaeontologists in northeastern...

How do the personalities of chimpanzees affect their prospects for reproducing and longevity?

Why sodium can taste both good and bad to a fruit fly...

Why city frogs have more sex appeal.

A Chinese scientist has been using the experimental DNA editing system, called CRISPR, on human embryos

It’s mythconception time!