Interviews with Scientists

Scientists have been looking for dark matter for nearly 100 years, but why does finding it matter?

We finally find out what has happened to Jolle's stickleback fish!

Bats use echolocation - ultrasound sonar - to find their way around and to hunt down prey. But how do they do it?

How do slithering snakes swallow prey so much bigger than their own heads?

Geckos can hold up two humans!

Why can some birds use tools?

Learn how Caterpillars "Fake it till they make it" to safety

To understand the underground moles have developed super sensitive faces...

This tiddler of British waters camouflages by changing colour...

Zebrafish can make their own sunscreen

Researchers have discovered a neural code for food abundance

Porpoises use a sophisticated sonar system to locate and track prey

More than 2000 students have helped shed new light on the genomics of bacteriophages

Functional MRI suggests that infants and adults experience pain in very similar ways

How thousands of years of selective breeding have turned teosinte into maize...

We examine the environmental cost of the aviation industry and the potential for mitigation strategies...

Radar stations can track distant objects, but how does radar work, and what are its shortcomings?

Three billion journeys are made by air every year. Are these passengers cruising for an infectious bruising?

New technology enables jet engine engineers at Rolls-Royce to monitor the health of their engines even in flight...

What does a study of 50 years of rock and pop reveal about the way music has evolved in half a Century?

Nearly 100% of respondents said they wanted to know what genetic risks might be lurking in their genomes...

NASA’s Messenger probe crashed into Mercury in April 2015. But what did Messenger discover during four years orbiting...

Balls of tumour tissue grown from a patient's cancer cane be used to optimise and personalise tumour treatments...

Our gene of the month may be small, but it's surprisingly important.