Interviews with Scientists

How did life start on earth?

How do we find DNA? And can we use sequencing to work out what's in our smoothie?

Would aliens necessarily have DNA, like we do?

Would you go to Mars? And if you did, what would it be like to live there?

What do parkour athletes have in common with orang-utans?

Is the golden ratio really represented all throughout nature?

Could your gut bugs be playing a role in how your DNA is being expressed?

A new technique could make it easier, and less traumatic, to get over phobias.

Could GPS give us more than just our location?

How do you navigate an empty craft through millions of miles of space?

Could a pair of trousers which track your movements help firefighters or the military?

Driverless cars could change the world- but what legal and ethical challenges do they bring with them?

Could our navigation technology actually be getting in the way of looking where we are going?

GPS is useful, but it has a number of problems, and doesn't work well inside buildings. Could a Cambridge startup...

What is GPS, and how does it tell you where you are?

How ancient mariners managed to get around, with help from coconuts!

How does your brain help you get around familiar environments?

The annual International Conference of Navigation was held in Glasgow this year, and we spoke to the president.

Indira Raman offers her perspective on being a scientist who is a woman...

The rubber hand illusion and feelings of disembodiment...

Elephants have extra copies of a gene that protects against cancer...

The parasites that cause African sleeping sickness can hide in the skin of healthy people...

The heart begins beating much earlier than first thought...

To celebrate Hallowe’en, I’ve picked the scary-sounding fruit fly gene Ouija Board as our gene of the month.