Interviews with Scientists

How can we eat for the benefit of our health, and for the planet's health too?

With so much dietary information out there, how do we know what's food fact and what's fiction?

Scientists have magnetised migrating reed warblers to find out how they navigate longitude, as well as latitude.

Where would you be without your smartphone? Joe McGeehan developed some of the pivotal technology behind wireless...

Researchers have used maths and psychology to analyse whether more diverse groups really do make better decisions.

Scientists have found a way to re-programme the sex chromosomes of mice, making healthy previously infertile sperm.

A team at the University of Iowa are listening to the sounds of space ...

Radio telescopes dotted across the globe have joined up to create the Event Horizon Telescope, which is the size of the...

What does Saturn smell like?

In 2020, the European Space Agency will launch a rover onto the surface of Mars on an exploratory mission to look for...

Goldfish can survive the winter freeze using a genetic trick that allows them to convert lactic acid into alcohol.

Artificial intelligence will change our future. Even the future of magic tricks.

How a space station in critical danger led to the development of the shiny metal blankets that prevent marathon runners...

Only 5% of the universe is made up of physical matter, what else is out there?

The immune system can be programmed to attack cancer, but it doesn't always work, and doctors work out why.

Researchers are using DNA as a storage system for digital information.

Gene therapy is a hot topic, but how do scientists get genes into cells?

Researchers have edited DNA in human embryos more efficiently than ever before.

A look at bioremediation and how microbes may help us clean up nuclear waste.

New research suggests all of us have some ability to tell when animals are feeling stressed.

It's not just the cyclists who go for gold, there's some serious science behind the bikes.

This week, Kat Arney’s holding her nose in search of the truth behind a whiffy myth...

A glue that can cope with the wet and dynamic conditions of human bodies has been created after scientists found...

New insights may help us understanding and target the spread of tumours.