Interviews with Scientists

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.

Duncan Odom is figuring out the control switches between different species and how they contribute to the incredibly...

Emma Farley's work focuses on understanding exactly what the switches in our genome look like, and how they...

To shed light on the dark matter of the genome, I spoke to Wendy Bickmore - one of the organisers of the Genetics...

How did we get to the modern human?

Could we examine DNA that is 3.8 million years old?

What do you study when researching skeletons that span millions of years?

The earliest stone tools were assumed to have been intentionally made by our pre-human ancestors but maybe there's...

Could the discovery of fire have been the cause of man's big brain?

How are Eurasian jays teaching us about what it means to be human?

Is the ability to believe in ritual and religion proof of a higher form of intelligence? Possibly not if Lee's...

Is our obsession with social networks and relationships the one thing that makes us special?

Roswell High, Area 51 and Redndlesham Forest - all are places were aliens have been reported...

When we're searching for life in our universe, what are we looking for?

Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us on a journey through the universe and questions what intelligence is...

...but if we can't travel to them, will the discovery be all that profound?

Do scientists have a place in Hollywood?

Why does the theme from Jaws leave us quaking, and what makes the Psycho soundtrack so scary?

What does a marmot have to do with the shower scene in psycho?

What makes a film a horror?