Interviews with Scientists

Would you visit a university in virtual reality?

How does science reach governments and politicians? It's not a transparent process...

Preprint servers let scientists communicate and collaborate - but are they bypassing peer review?

In some fields, three fifths of published papers can't be replicated or independently verified...

How the peer review process got started, and how it's changed

How have scientists been adapting to life without their labs? Here's a physicist's outlet...

Our conversations have gone virtual like never before. How do video chats compare with face-to-face?

Should we really be handing public money to an industry that’s one of the major causes of climate change?

At Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, staff had been working without realising they'd had the coronavirus...

How does the UK's new contact tracing app rank on privacy and data security?

A study shows that common variations of the ACE2 gene don't affect factors like blood pressure...

Computer modelling shows versions of the ACE2 gene that may change how the virus binds to cells...

A popular UK symptom tracking app has revealed that half of the variation between people is genetic...

Genetic differences may be part of why some people get severe infections - but likely won't explain much...

ACE is the cousin of ACE2, but they do opposite things. And drugs that inhibit ACE might help with COVID-19...

ACE2 is the entry gate for the coronavirus - but its day job involves blood pressure...

Using science to keep Nobel prizes safe

How the atomic bomb was developed

The road to breaking the enigma cipher.

Identifying and commemorating the victims of the medical experiments

The development of the V2 rockets

How did radar change the course of the war?

Going from biplanes to spitfires

Here's round 3 of the Naked Scientists science pub quiz...