Interviews with Scientists

Our gene of the month is the adventurous Scott of the Antarctic, which was first discovered in fruit flies back in...

In our cells, DNA is wrapped around ball-like packing proteins. But why doesn't it get all tangled up? And what...

Mark Henderson gives us a taster of what to expect at the Genetics Society Spring meeting, looking at genomics for...

Almost every one of your cells has more than 2 metres of DNA packed into it. How is this achieved, and how is it...

New research investigates whether gut bacteria changes following gastric bypass surgery can be transplanted into other...

Oceanographers have come up with the unusual idea of weighing the global ocean at a single point to assess how big it...

Kirsten Gottschalk and Dominic Ford investigate the science being undertaken with the SKA's precursor instruments...

PhD student Sarah Thompson discusses her work, researching the physics of radio telescope receivers...

Kirsten Gottschalk visits the future site of the Square Kilometer Array in the Australian outback...

And closing this month’s show, Professor Fred Gage from the Salk Institute California describes what's been...

We find out about a new treatment for addiction and posttraumatic stress disorder.

Finding out how someone with alcholism re-wrote the script in his brain to help beat addiction.

Glasses-free 3D screens normally have to be viewed from a specific angle. Now a team from HP Labs have overcome this...

The UK has a potential wealth of tidal energy, as Richard Hollingham discovered at Liverpool's Albert Docks...

Cinema lecturer Dr Leo Enticknap discusses whether we're entering a 'digital dark age' as we struggle to...

Store and ignore formats are hard to come by for digital data. Now a team at Harvard university have managed to store...