Interviews with Scientists

We discover a new chemical technique to find fingerprints in places that weren't possible before....

How smoking fathers risk passing on damaged DNA to their children, Magnetic tornadoes heating up the surface of the Sun...

Some substances, including drugs and explosives, can be concealed by dissolving them in another liquid such as an...

With the advent of global terrorism, it’s become apparent that people will go to extreme lengths to conceal bombs. So...

Are you a leader or are you a follower? An intriguing new study shows how you can identify influential people from...

How just 5 mutations could create a transmissable form of H5N1, the 50,000 megapixel camera providing insight never...

A major seven year study has been launched in the UK to investigate the link between biodiversity and the services...

Is science education up to scratch? Universities have complained that the A-Level curriculum doesn't prepare...

How music can make children more empathetic, the electrical charge of cracked materials, the slow extinction of the...

As if carbon dioxide and methane aren’t enough to worry about, it now seems that we’re managing to make a whole load of...

One of the most fundamental questions about how life began in the first place must be answered here on Earth. We...

We explore some cinematic science when we meet the scientific adviser on Ridley Scott's blockbuster Prometheus...

We've been scanning the skies for evidence of intelligence for over 50 years, to find out how, we're joined...

From seaweed to red sea migrants, we get the low down on invasions in the marine realm.

Lionfish are proving to be a big problem in the Caribbean. We find out what is being done to deal with them.

We meet an unusual floater in our Critter of the Month

We discuss how rainfall can be used to map regions affected by seasonal Malaria to improve drug treatment programmes...

A protein in milk to keep obesity at bay, 'smart' water pumps to improve water availability, a digital...

And finally, our gene of the month is the hollow-sounding Tinman, whimsically named after the character in the Wizard...

This is a story led by Hiroaki Matsunami in the US and published in PLoS ONE about the genetics of why some people like...

There's some research published in PLoS Genetics this month from researchers up Edinburgh led by Lee Smith that...

They've looked at the mummy of a 16th century Korean child and manage to not only extract preserved organ tissue...