Interviews about Medicine

Coal without the miners and goats fighting chemical weapons - we catch up with Mark Peplow, editor of Chemistry World...

How deep can you go? Professional free divers can descend hundreds of feet underwater with no scuba gear, but what...

David Thomas is a marine biologist from the University of Wales, Bangor. His work takes him all over the world and he...

Fighter pilots need to undergo extreme conditions and still be able to make life or death decisions. How do they train...

Richard Turner volunteered to have his body tested to extremes of endurance at Everest base camp, all in the name of...

It's all well and good being excited about new fuels, but are the arguments for using them really sound? Can we...

For kitchen science, we sent Azi to find out how to make biodiesel from vegetable oil, and to prove that it really...

This week, Chelsea finds evidence that Mexican food may not have changed much in hundreds of years, while Bob explores...

Here’s a puzzle that science has yet to solve; it’s something we all do, it’s contagious and even animals are affected...

This week, Bob and Chelsea talk us through blood based bandages and the benefits of cut-sucking.

Most people are familiar with epilepsy, we may have friends and relatives who suffer from seisures, but the disease it...

Olaf Blanke tells Chris Smith about how a certain region of the brain can be tricked into making you believe there...

Bipolar disorder, also known as Manic Depression, is one of the most common neuropsychiatric disorders. We spoke to...

This week, Chelsea looks at making music from babies' cries, and Bob explores how babies can spot different...

We spoke to Chemistry World's Richard Van Noorden about how chemistry can help us quit smoking and hide the signs...

We sent Ben Valsler to visit the newly opened Wellcome Collection in London, a place where science and art go hand in...

Michael Watts on how to search for arsenic in contaminated land, and the impact on people's health

Dr Hazel Wilkinson tells Sabina Michnowicz how she used her plant identification skills and a book of spells to help...

We spoke to Dr Trevor Emmett, lecturer in Forensic Science at Anglia Ruskin University about what forensics is, an dhow...

Azi Khatiri goes to a lab for a hair cut - to see if vegetarian hair is different to that of a carnivore, or if a rural...

Serena Marks tells us how you might not lose the goodness of apples when making cider, and in fact that cider might be...

This week Bob and Chelsea discuss how lifestyle affects obisity.

Prof. Nicky Clayton on her studies with corvids - a group of birds who plan, scheme, steal and even make tools.

Dr Andrew Smith tells us why primates have evolved the ability to see in three colours - and how this could have helped...