Interviews with Scientists

Kat busts the myth that mental illness is due to a chemical imbalance.

If you agree to donate your organs does that definitely mean they'll be used?

New research from The University of Sheffield shows how we all have our own biological Pacmen.

Could the phases of the moon affect earthquakes?

What is the Gaia mission and how did it come about in the first place?

Part 1 of George Seabroke's poem Gaia.

What are the instruments on board Gaia and how do they work?

What will happen to all the data that has been collected by Gaia?

Part 2 of George Seabroke's poem Gaia.

What will Gaia do for the future of space research?

The disease was discovered over 100 years ago, so what do we now know about it?

If we know tau tangles and amyloid plaques are the cause of Alzheimer’s, why can’t we just blitz them?

Early trials of aducanumab show the drug destroying amyloid but there are other drugs that have reached this stage and...

Could we stop the clumping of plaques and tangles in the first place?

Although all this research sounds promising, drug development takes time. So what can we do about it now?

Remember the ice bucket challenge? What did the money we raised support?

A single-dose treatment has cured malaria in mice.

There's not one species of giraffe, but four!

It's a myth that a pounding headache is your own heart beating...

Will the new ban on microbeads make a difference?

Is it nature or nuture that determines our grades?

When it comes to exams, who decides what needs to be tested and how?

How much scientific research actually gets in to education policy?

And finally it’s time for our Gene of the Month, and this time it’s Deadpan.