Interviews with Scientists

The Olympics are only just beginning but stories of doping have been filling the papers for months. So what's the...

Kat Arney is back with her mythconception and this week she’s been busy researching in the pub...

A parasitic plant that devastates crops in some parts of the world may have now met its match thanks to the household...

A new study shows how height has changed over the last hundred years.

The story behind a mysterious super material and the man that refused to give it away.

The inside of a jet engine can get up to 1600 degrees Celsius, so how do the materials survive this intense heat?

The Solar Orbiter is going closer to the sun than we've ever sent anything before, but how do you design it to...

The human body has its own mechanisms for handling the heat but how can we optimise them at the Rio Olympics?

New understanding of why fat builds up in arteries could hold the key to a cure.

Researchers may have found a tiny solution for storing big data.

Are Teflon and Velcro really products of NASA's missions to space?

The UK's leading academies have issued a joint statement on the key priorities for UK science after the referendum.

Humans and wild birds form a rare and ancient bond in the search for honey.

What's happening inside the engine to keep your car moving?

Is there any way to change the petrol fractions of crude oil so they can work in a diesel engine?

What are biofuels made from and are they any better than fossil fuels?

Natural gas vehicles are a cleaner alternative to petrol and diesel but the high pressures required to store the gas...

With its strong radiation belts, polar auroras and red spot, Jupiter is a bit of an enigma...

Photographing the gas giants with astrophographer Roger Hutchinson...

Juno rockets to Jupiter and deputy principle investigator of the mission explains how much of a feat this is...

Could clever canines hold the key to understanding Alzheimer's disease?

Dogs have the rare ability to tell emotional expressions apart, and not only for each other, but for humans.

Has our obsession with 'purebreeds' negatively impacted dogs' qualities of life?

New evidence suggests wolves were domesticated twice, but how and why did this occur?