Interviews with Scientists

Kingston University’s exercise physiologist Chris Easton puts Naked Scientist Meera Senthilingam through her paces......

Sometimes, science and technology may take its role in sport a little too far. So far, that it is then banned for...

How is scientific insight applied to improve the performance of team GB? We meet one of the scientists applying...

We’re investigating what it takes to become an elite athlete. As important as innate talent is, it’s not enough to make...

What does it take to win Olympic gold? The right genetics, training, attitude, and technology all combine in an elite...

Military developments have taken the jet engine in a new direction. Short Take Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL)...

The conditions in a Jet engine - very high temperatures & incredible forces - are very challenging, requiring...

World War Two saw huge developments in aero engines, from the Merlin that powered the Hurricanes and Spitfires deployed...

From the efforts that preceded the Wright brother's official first sustained heavier-than-air-flight, through to...

Back in time now almost 50,000 years to the final days of the Neanderthals and the rise of modern man. Research has...

Antibiotics and vaccines save lives, but to do so, they usually need to be kept cold and this could be a bitter pill to...

How proteins could help clear away Huntington's disease...

At the University of Reading, Dr Tiffany Taylor and her colleagues are busy manipulating bacteria and putting them...

Our gene of the month is Ken and Barbie - yes, named after the dolls. Like their plastic childhood counterparts, male...

The final story that we’ve got is a really nice paper published in Science. This is from Jennifer Doudna at the...

This is from Marco Bortolato at the University of Southern California and this is looking at the genetics of rage.

This is a really interesting study looking at the evolution of music and this was published in the PNAS and it was led...

We’ve already heard about the scientists working on the frontiers of DNA, but others are taking things further, hacking...

Every biology student is familiar with DNA - the ladder-like blueprint of life built on a backbone of the sugar...

Super bainite's strength means it might make an excellent armour - but punching holes in it might make it even...

What are the environmental dangers of nanoparticles? They're a fraction the size of a human hair, so could they...