Interviews with Scientists

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?

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...