Interviews with Scientists

Being addicted to things is usually bad news but now there's evidence that getting hooked on chocolate might not...

Meera went out to find the best bits of the festival, and wound up in crowd control!

Breastfeeding is the best was to nurture an infant, but what if you're a smoker? We're always told that...

We’re all being asked to lower our carbon footprint and one area where you’d think this would be nearly impossible is...

Every year, the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the BA, hold a festival. They go to a different...

How could Radio help rainforests? Through a community radio station lovingly nicknamed Pygmy FM, indigenous people can...

This week Bob and Susanne tell us why diet foods might actually make kids fat and why the placebo effect works on some...

Out of Body Experiences (OBE's)may be spooky, but they can tell us a lot about how the brain works. Now,...

Nature's Micheal Hopkin spoke to Al Jean about how The Simpsons is, perhaps surprisingly, one of the most...

We spoke to Professor Paul Halpern, author of "What's Science Ever Done for Us?: What the Simpsons Can Teach...

We spoke to Professor Paul Halpern, author of "What's Science Ever Done for Us?: What the Simpsons Can Teach...

Jim Olsen and his team from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle have found a way to use scorpion...

This week, Susanne and Bob look into the sex lives of Arctic Foxes and the effect of melting Polar ice sheets.

Bruce Livett tells how he is using the venom of cone shells to cure pain...

We spoke to Gavin Laing, of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicne, about why snake venom is so potent, how we could...

Robyn Williams, from ABC Radio National's 'The Science Show' speaks to Glenn King about finding natural...

Ben finds out how to avoid being stung and make a great cup of tea at the same time.

In the UK, this summer has been the wettest on record so far, so what is going on with the weather?

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

This week, Bob and Chelsea tell us about extreme familily survival.

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...