Interviews with Scientists

It may not be able to play chess but this rook does know a little of Archimedes' work...

Also in the news this week - an international consortium of Aphid researchers have been studying the newly decoded...

Is it possible to fix a broken heart with stem cells?

Diana O'Carroll brings us the highlights from this years British Science Festival...

Tony Ryan discusses how can minuscule robots deliver deliver drugs to precise location in our body...

This week in science history saw, in 1984, the invention of DNA fingerprinting by Sir Alec Jeffreys. Since then, the...

How many licks does it take to eat a lollipop? How many ants would you need to carry a person? Aaron Santos' new...

This week saw the launch of the Centre of the Cell, a new children orientated science center located in the heart of...

There's a new method of archaeological dating in town and it doesn't involve wine or chocolate....

We find out how life in the ancient Greek home wasn't just dinner and a game of Trivial Pursuit...

Where did spectroscopy come from? This week's element is erbium: an otherwise little-known substance with a...

This week's Explosive Chemistry with Dr Hal featured the following amazing experiments...

This week's Cool Chemistry with Dr Hal featured the following amazing experiments...

This week in science history saw, in 1883, the catastrophic eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia. The eruption and...

Thallium: the poisonous poison.

This week, Kira Weissman explores the element that stops eggs sticking to frying pans and keeps astronauts safe in...

This week in science history saw, in 1897, Felix Hoffman first synthesise a stable form of acetylsalicylic acid for...

And now for the first chapter in a new series we're introducing on the show over the summer called Chemistry in...

The Naked Scientists attended the opening of the new multi-million unit at the Babraham Insititute and bumped into...

Laura Soul finds out about the world of open source software and the release of a new open source operating system...

This week in science history saw, in 1968, the death of Otto Hahn, the German chemist who co-discovered nuclear fission...

Why are mountain ranges so regularly spaced? Dr Taylor Perron explains...

Can we make materials that will end up as better rubbish? John Williams takes us through the problems of the refuse...

One company is unusual in creating 'secondary liquid fuel' using only our liquid waste. Richard Kirkman tells...