Interviews with Scientists

Plain-language summaries are making research more accessible to broader audiences

Handedness has its origins in the spinal cord

The Toxoplasma gondii parasite builds a scaffold inside human and other animal cells to help it multiply and cause...

Exposing male mice to nicotine can make their sons more resistant to nicotine and other drugs

Sensors on the surface of the brain help paralysed people to communicate

How, and why, are scientists trying to engineer super heavy elements?

How do stars make new elements?

How do you harness the incredible power locked inside atoms?

How did Rutherford split the atom, and build up the picture we still use today?

How do animals in the deep blue sea manage to disappear?

Scientists are proposing a radical reshuffle of the dinosaur family tree.

A new technique speeds up cell growth in the lab, which could be a boon to researching many diseases.

How are car user interfaces going to work, and might they cause us to crash more?

A protein has been shown to reverse some age-related effects in mice. Could it hold promise for humans?

Are chemicals in the environment disrupting our ability to reproduce?

What factors affect the quality of a woman’s eggs?

What affects a man’s ability to successfully reproduce?

Are sperm counts really declining? And are we having families later in life?

Quickfire science on sperm and eggs.

Understanding how birds talk to each other.

A fertility app that can help to prevent unwanted pregnancy.

How many people have ever lived? And is it more than the number currently alive?

Should we be spending money on internet filters or just plain old education?

Artificially-produced antibodies switch off tumour's "don't eat me" signal...