Interviews with Scientists

How are vaccines tested, and do they have side effects?

Where do these beliefs come from and how do we address them?

What are vaccines and how do they protect us?

Jenner, cowpox, and the first vaccine.

We rock babies to sleep, why not adults?

Why is there a paucity of new drugs for mental illness?

Because chemical connections between neurons are slightly unreliable, it doesn’t always help to have more...

Scientists have managed to temporarily boost the working memory of older people...

How do doctors go about helping people who suffer from dementia?

How many different types of dementia are there?

How good are we at spotting men with post natal depression?

Video streaming consumes 3% of global electricity, a new study examines how this is changing.

Modelling the human gut on a chip

Dark matter might be made of axions - but what are axions, and how do we try to detect them?

Dark matter might be WIMPs - weakly-interacting massive particles. But what are they? How do we detect them?

We say there's five times as much dark matter as regular matter - let's think about how much that actually is.

How good are wasps at logical reasoning? We've been finding out!

A new test can tell which patients will benefit from early aggressive therapy for inflammatory bowel diseases

What can we learn about dark matter from cosmological simulations? Colin DeGraf is here to tell us.

Viruses offer an alternative to antibiotics for treating resistant bacterial infections.

A primer on dark matter - history of observations, and what we know, with Astronomer Royal Martin Rees.

We take a look at our listener feedback...

Injured lungs, previously unfit for transplant, can be repaired and then transplanted using a new technique.

Our panel unravel the science behind common mythconceptions.