Interviews with Scientists

Meet the dugongs and manatees, the mysterious marine mammals that were once mistaken for mermaids.

Arctic terns are global champions flying from the South Pole to the North Pole and back every year.

Mantis shrimp have a lightening fast punch and the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom.

Diatoms are the gems of the ocean that lock up carbon and are vital for all sorts of other creatures from krill to...

Giant tube worms cope with many extremes in their homes on deep ocean black smokers.

Across the developed world we tend to take it for granted that we can simply plug in a kettle or a computer and there’s...

One of the outstanding problems in energy provision is how to store it in such a way that it can be accessed rapidly...

Small-scale turbines that can harness energy locally from winds, tides or rivers can be a valuable asset in bringing...

Planet Earth Podcast Presenter, Richard Hollingham, visited a small, hot, humid room at the University of Leeds. Inside...

The discovery of bacteria that can not only survive in waters rich in toxic arsenic, but actually use it as part of it...

Wednesday, December the 1st is going to be World Aids Day and 2011 actually marks the 30th anniversary of the discovery...

In July this year, five devastated a Surrey beauty spot. Fire fighters from three counties tackled the blaze on...

The Herschel-ATLAS survey has identified a number of galaxies acting as lenses, magnifing distant galaxies and allowing...

The International Space Station celebrated a decade of human habitation this month. We find out what life in orbit is...

Get the high-speed low-down on Saturn and it's enigmatic rings...

Meera and Dave explore the structures that can shape-shift from one shape to another - also known as bistable...

This week, the the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience took place in San Diego, California. This is the...

A visit to any British seaside is never complete without a good poke around in a rock pool and luckily for them, some...

We find out what impact cognition enhancers, or "smart drugs" have on the brain, and ask why so many students...

Brain-boosting drugs raise some interesting ethical questions, ones that we’re likely to need to address more and more...

In the West we tend to view slim body shape as attractive and a sign of affluence. But how were plump and thin body...

An extinct horse found in Pompeii had DNA very different to modern horses. New research has solved this mystery- the...