Interviews about History

Before we started transfusion, we had rather a different approach to blood based treatment...

Robots are being given 'simulated childhoods' so they become 'unbreakable' when out on a mission.

What does a study of 50 years of rock and pop reveal about the way music has evolved in half a Century?

Millions of people live close to volcanoes, but what danger are they in, and are there any long term health effects...

The panelists talk about their favourite games, whether games can change your brain, and the dawn of eSports.

Can technology from video games be used outside the entertainment industry?

Running a marathon anytime soon? The length of your fingers could predict how fast you'll be able to complete it...

Palaeo-anthropologists in South Africa are inviting tourists to watch them at work excavating a new species of human...

Cryonics is the preservation of people at low temperatures, with the aim of resuscitating them in the future. So how...

Different parts of the UK harbour their own distinctive genetic flavour and revealing where some of these groups...

Easter Island is one of the most isolated places on Earth and the statues stand at over 40 feet, but how did they get...

Where did the UK population come from? A new study reveals that the Romans didn't fancy Brits, and some counties...

Light continues to perplex scientists today, so we take a look back in history to try and understand what it is...

Sniffing our hand after a handshake may allow us to detect chemical signals produced by others

The earliest evidence of our genus, Homo, has been unearthed in Ethiopia...

What was growing on the hands of the Naked Scientists? And how effective is hand washing at dislodging these microbial...

We couldn't live without electricity. Italian inventor Alessandro Volta discovered how to harness its power with...

The discovery of Hydrogen paved the way for a better understanding of the elements that make up the Universe.

We know now that the Earth goes around the Sun, not the other way around. But how was this intellectual leap made?

Archimedes' principle, and the "Eureka" moment of its discovery is one of the most famous experiments...

You've probably heard a lot about weed, and maybe even tried it, but how much do you know about the...

Do you use more happy phrases in a day? A new study shows that languages are biased towards more positive words.

This month, Cambridge scientists are battling it out in an effort to become the city's FameLab champion! We hear...

Why does a gaming app needs to know your location? It might be tracking you - even when you're not using it - and...