Interviews with Scientists

What makes the best excuse?

A beam of low energy, neutral helium atoms can create super-detailed images.

A new way to meet the challenge of burgeoning data storage demands...

When is the best time to fit pregnancy into a busy lab schedule?

Protein sequences from freshwater molluscs solves and archaeological riddle...

Adaptive optics is enabling scientists to see individual blood cells moving in the retina...

European beewolves paralyse their prey and use nitric oxide gas to keep the corpse fresh...

A monkey with a missing primary visual cortex can still see... but how?

Do plants have consciousness?

How 1 billion hectares of trees could stabilise the climate

Magnetic nanoparticles used to guide stem cells around the body

When will we be able to make a cup of tea with the power of nuclear fusion?

"In space, no one can hear you scream....". Well, we wanted to test this for ourselves!

Meet the creatures locked in a sonic arms race...

You've got to be impressed by bar-headed geese...

How studying healthy people at altitude can help critically ill patients in hospital...

How do you know if food is past its best?

Scientists have come up with a way of making music with proteins...

Do space travellers experience 0 gravity?

What should we make of the latest Martian methane plume?

SPOILER: Mining for gold isn’t like what you see in films...

While teams continue to search for gold, others are looking for something quite different; life.

When you drill a hole in a mine, water from natural underground sources wants to flood in. How do you stop it?

Chris Smith dives into one of the deepest gold mines in the world.