Interviews with Scientists

Social Scientist Paul Piff reveals the modern day tale of George Orwell's Animal Farm....

A new drug target to fight memory loss in Alzheimers, the genome of Otzi the iceman, gender selection in pygmy hippos...

David Butler explains how to make the most of our water supply including the best ways to recycle water in the home...

It’s well known that what you eat, drink or smoke during pregnancy can have long term consequences on the developing...

Hear how meat is being made in the lab using stem cells, the flaws identified which could mean those neutrinos weren...

Building an instrument to fly on board a satellite is a feat of precision engineering. It’s got to be robust enough to...

Portable, tuneable lasers would be a breakthrough for medical diagnostics on the road. Cambridge researchers have...

Light Blue Optics is a Cambridge based company developing lasers to project images and to turn any surface into a touch...

In England there are 450,000 kilometres of managed hedgerows, often containing hawthorn and often dubbed “corridors for...

This week, one of the world's fastest computers became over ten times more powerful...

Raspberry Pi is a computer the size of a credit card; it will sell for about £20 and could turn your TV into a home...

Detecting viruses with sensors, how flies fight parasites with alcohol, delivering drugs on a chip and one of the World...

We investigate how XUV light in bursts as short as 30 femtoseconds can be used to probe the fundamental properties of...

Incredible as it sounds, over 70% of the energy released when you burn the fuel in your car gets wasted as heat....

Traditional power stations are very inefficient, losing lots of energy to the environment. But Thermo-Electric heat...

Can we trick the immune system into attacking cancer cells by disguising them as bacteria? New research suggests that...

A new project launched in London this week ahead of the 2012 Olympics to get school children across the country...