Interviews with Scientists

On the subject of limbs, and how they can go wrong...

It’s known that a deficiency or an excess of vitamin A, otherwise known as retinol, and its derivative retinoic acid...

Are all genes made equal? In other words, do the protein recipes that they encode all get turned out at the same rate...

Fungal infections can be deadly, but who would have guessed that yeasts have better directional sense than many humans...

As air traffic grows, the noise of aircraft is becoming an increasingly important problem. To find out what...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy, or DMD, is a genetic condition in which sufferers lack the ability to produce dystrophin...

Carbon capture and storage has been seen by the government as an important way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The...

Current estimates suggest that there are over half a million people airborne around the planet at any moment in time....

How can we generate hydrogen quickly and efficiently? Nature has its own way to do this using enzymes called...

A new global initiative called the Earth Microbiome Project plans to build up a genetic picture of the billions of...

One of the most important chemical players in nature is the protein. The structure of a protein gives it specific...

In order to design useful new compounds, we need to know exactly what structure any new chemical will take. Computer...

How do manufacturers make chemicals on seriously large industrial scales? We sent Meera Senthilingam and Dave Ansell...

Breeding seahorses in captivity to supply aquariums aims to help reduce pressure on wild populations.

How do blood thirsty vampire bats home in on the best place to bite and therefore guarantee achieving a trouble-free...

Water sports – surfing, body boarding, kite surfing, etc have all become increasingly popular in recent years, but the...

Over the past year, we’ve met up with lots of marine experts to talk about their work. To delve a little bit deeper...

A major landmark in ocean science was reached in October 2010 with the completion of the world’s first Census of Marine...

We explore how carbon dates can be statistically analysed in order to look at prehistoric England and causewayed...

An exclusive glimpse into the making-of Naked Oceans season one.

How do jet engines actually work? One simple way to think about it is Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow. The engine sucks air...

How should astronomers go about communicating their work? Mark Thompson is President of Norwich Astronomical Society,...

Climatologists and geologists have developed a number of ways to estimate the temperature on Earth going back a very...

What would our solar system look like to extra-solar observers? Dr Chris Stark, from the Carnigie Institute in...