Interviews with Scientists

What is a COVID variant, and how could they affect COVID vaccines?

Explaining the method of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine

What does "efficacy" actually mean and how is it calculated from trial data?

Explaining the principles of vaccination

Searching for a more environmentally-friendly way to look for oil and gas

Are dogs as smart as we like to think, and dolphins wearing lipstick...

Inheriting a vulnerability to depression from father to offspring in mice via RNA in sperm

New data from around the UK could help us catch more cases

How does haemorrhage hurt?

is the mobile version of Little Nightmares fun to play?

Xbox change their mind about price increases, and make record profits.

What's going on with GameStop shares?

Is George Church's DIY vaccine a good idea? Bioethicist Arthur Caplan disagrees...

Geneticist George Church took a COVID vaccine back in May. Has it succeeded?

Self-experimentation still happens today - and biohackers like Josiah Zayner are pushing its limits...

Throughout recorded history, scientists have made themselves their own test subjects. How - and why?

Wombats make the most unusually-shaped poo. How do they do it? Their intestines have revealed the secret...

The United Arab Emirates' first space mission has just arrived in orbit around the red planet...

US researchers have pinpointed a region of the genetic code that can control the immune response to sepsis...

Einsteinium is rare and short-lived. This week, chemists managed to capture it...

Immunologist Peter Openshaw weighs in on vaccine mixing and spacing the doses...

What's really going on when something smells fishy?

Do we need nuclear power? We look at both sides of the argument...

A snapshot of how much power is used in the UK, and where it comes from.