Researchers have used stem cells to make neural implants more refined and with less scar...
Interviews with Scientists
Interviews about medicine, science, technology and engineering with scientists and researchers internationally...
11 March 2011
Mark Baumgartner from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution chooses a very rare critter with a huge appetite.
06 March 2011
We’ve heard how drugs like aspirin can be used, but how are they actually made? For this week’s Naked Engineering,...
06 March 2011
Every week, an earthquake occurs that's big enough to cause serious damage. Seismologists monitor this activity...
06 March 2011
Aspirin was touted originally as treatment for pain; but, 100 years on, we now know it’s much more powerful than that...
06 March 2011
Researchers at Rice university have developed a new way to etch structures into stacked piles of graphene, the...
03 March 2011
Breeding seahorses in captivity to supply aquariums aims to help reduce pressure on wild populations.
03 March 2011
Will converting marine life into carbon credits help fend off climate change? Is Blue Carbon the new green?
27 February 2011
It’s estimated that 80% of us will suffer from a bad back at some time in our lives, but the condition is hard to treat...
27 February 2011
Planet Earth podcast presenter Richard Hollingham has been asking what have the Romans ever done for us? Well, apart...
27 February 2011
There are 206 bones in the average adult human, but how do our bones grow and develop and what controls how strong they...
27 February 2011
Every year, about 75,000 people suffer a hip fracture in the UK and a majority of those will be down to the condition...
27 February 2011
When muscles are injured or weakened, patients are usually referred to a physiotherapist for help, regaining their...
25 February 2011
Fact Impact: All you need to know about the Milky Way...
25 February 2011
The James Webb Space Telescope, planned for launch in 2014, will be NASA's scientific successor to Hubble. With a...
25 February 2011
NASA describes Kepler as their first mission capable of finding Earth-size planets around other stars – and it’s doing...
20 February 2011
When someone loses a limb, although it's possible to replace the missing part with a prosthesis, making it move is...
20 February 2011
Scientists are keeping a close eye on the West Antarctic ice sheet because if it’s melts, we’re in big trouble from the...
20 February 2011
How do we study the atmosphere? We have a vast array of tools and chemical tricks that we can rely on, but the...
20 February 2011
Another reason to try and understand atmospheric chemistry is in case there comes a time when we have to try and do...
20 February 2011
If a time came that we needed to alter our atmospheric chemistry, how physically could we do it? Meera and Dave...