Interviews with Scientists

Tiny bacteria living in stinky mud can gang up to create tiny electrical nanowires.

Researchers have found that a person's genes may affect how likely they are to respond to the placebo effect.

Researchers have found worryingly low levels of genetic diversity in koala bears

Bacterial infections cause millions of deaths around the world every year. But countless more aren’t fatal yet cause...

Cancer spread causes 9 out of 10 cancer deaths. We’re joined by Dr. Joan Masague who is trying to understand how...

One of the key problems in the treatment of cancer is that tumours, having initially responded very nicely to a course...

Cows milk is a remarkable food – not only for drinking, but for cheese and butter, yoghurt and cream. So when did we...

Is breast cancer screening beneficial? A paper in the Lancet this week examines the pros and cons...

Most deaths from cancer occur when the disease spreads – or metastasises - to other parts of the body. But we know very...

Current cancer therapies often involve using drugs that are toxic to rapidly growing cells and this inevitably means...

Publicity and fundraising campaigns often focus on the cute, charismatic or cuddly animals, possibly leaving nature’s...

You could be forgiven for thinking that microbes are not, and should not be, a conservation priority. But that’s not...

A cocktail of git bugs can successfully see off Clostridium difficile, the potentially fatal and often hospital...

When Shakespeare coined the phrase "the world is your oyster", he meant that everything was up for grabs -...

One of Britain’s most unusual landscapes can be found along its coastline. Salt marshes are home to unique species of...

Almost every species studied has its own unique species of parasite – so with every extinction we’re losing at least...

Stand Up Maths and the Festival of the Spoken Nerd

Headlines like “Palm trees grew on Antarctica” abounded when climate scientists recently found evidence that the...

We put mathematician Matt to the test and ask him to predict the last digit of listeners shopping product barcodes!

How do we hear? How does the ear convert sound waves into messages to be interpretted by the brain and what goes wrong...

What is a hearing aid and how does it work? What are the issues involved in designing them? We spoke to a hearing aid...

How do we tell where a sound is coming from and what issues do hearing-impaired listeners have with finding the source...