Interviews with Scientists

A hoard of science-hungry academic luminaries join the Naked Scientists to celebrate Christmas

We round off Christmas 2016 with a final rendition of A Partridge in a Pear Tree...

How can we ensure that minority backgrounds are fairly represented in science?

Computer simulations reveal how ants work together to carry large food items back to the nest.

The size and nutritional content of meals influences how sleepy a fly feels afterwards...

A new approach helps researchers to assess data from many small-scale studies before designing clinical trials.

Fossil footprints reveal that some of our human-like ancestors could have been taller than we thought.

And finally it’s time for our Gene of the Month, which is the gene - or rather the gene fault - responsible for...

Because we might be able to grow human embryos longer than 14 days in the lab, does that mean we should? Sarah...

Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz and her team managed to keep embryos growing in the lab for 13 days. So should we...

Our genetic journey is the subject of a new book - A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived - by Adam Rutherford.

... and it could mean quicker diagnosis and better drug delivery.

A new law means the UK government can see your internet browsing history but there has been a lot of opposition to the...

We hear how this will save Shona Cobb, who has condition that affects her heart, known as Marfan syndrome.

Users are locked out of their machines and all their data is irreversibly encrypted unless they pay a large fee...

What do they all have in common? They light up the same pathways in the brain...

We swabbed our desks to see what's growing there and the results were pretty disgusting...

You can burst it, pop it, neuter it, starve it or just break it...

The many clever mechanisms that bacteria do to stop antibiotics killing them...

Instead of using antibiotics, could we give bacteria a virus?

We've only had anitbiotics for 100 years; we survived up until then, so surely we can do so again?

Your prescription to help stop antibiotic resistance...

Does life need DNA? Researchers have now made a similar substance called XNA.

Could we search for DNA in space?