Interviews with Scientists

Graihagh made it her mission to find out as much as possible about Connie's winnings. But first, how did Connie...

Our gene of the month is Titin - one of the biggest genes in the genome.

Vardhman Rakyan has discovered that chemical tags on repetitive genes known as rDNA could be bridging the gap between...

Richard Dawkins’ landmark book, The Selfish Gene, was first published in 1976. I caught up with geneticist Steve...

New research shows the possible scale of Zika virus infection.

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...