Interviews with Scientists

How do we know which areas will be hit worse in heavy rainfall? Cutting edge computing can give us a glimpse of the...

How much can we trust forecasters, and how far ahead can they predict the weather with accuracy?

What is general relativity, and how did Einstein end up as the first scientist celebrity?

Kat sinks a rather fishy tale, in this week's mythconception.

What really killed the dinosaurs? Research this week has poured cold water on one of the leading theories...

Would you want your laptop to try to cheer you up on a sad day? New technology allows software to recognise emotions.

A new GM mosquito that prevents the spread of malaria has been unveiled by scientists this week.

The process of planet formation by gradual dust accumulation is well-known, but it's never been witnessed until...

Can you tell if you're looking at an authentic website? Fraudsters have been stealing web addresses of journals to...

Kat Arney tackles a long held myth that glass is a liquid...

Too many specimens and too few taxonomists are to blame for widespread mislabelling and misidentification of plant...

With training, pigeons did just as well as pathologists in distinguishing cancerous from healthy breast tissue samples.

As the debate intensifies over how much sugar we should eat, we ask the question on everyone's lips: Why we should...

Sugar rots your teeth, but not all sugars are the same...

Sugar has been shown to make us gain weight but how does the sugar we eat turn to fat? And is this different for when...

After two years of sugar tax, the Mexican government canned it. But the UK is considering it... How effective would it...

Water on the earth is easy to spot but there is also a lot beneath the surface and some of this is very very old.

Kat Arney dispells the myth that Sharks don't get cancer

In the summer we cought up with the cambridge eco car racing team, this week we got back in touch to see how they did...

What is big data and why does Lord David Willetts thinks it is an area in which Britain excells?

A tiny wireless brain implant powered by radio waves that uses light to control nerve cells has been developed by...

What can big data do and how has the cloud enabled the big data revolution?

The Square Kilometre Array show's just how big data can get and the challenges that come with it.

When we save something on the cloud where is it actually kept and how much energy is needed to keep it there?