Interviews with Scientists

Kat busts the myth that your tongue has different taste zones.

A team have created a new form of personalised medicine, which could mean correct doses of drugs for transplant...

Could the forgotten vitamin K have life saving properties?

Our gene of the month is Pygopus, named after the species of Australian legless lizard.

Humans aren’t the only animals to be getting their genomes analysed - our four-legged friends have been getting in on...

How do you start talking about genetics? Anna Middleton has teamed up with ad execs to make films to get the...

Kat:: Have you ever wondered what’s in your genes? Now it’s possible, thanks to home genetic tests. But what's...

If a test picks up 25% abnormal cells in a developing embryo, does that mean the baby will be abnormal? Maybe not.

New techology in prosphetics has led to a robotic fingertip that actually feels.

In most species females live longer than males but we still don't know why.

Giant pandas have proven really hard to breed, but is this because they have no sex drive?

These days origami has more uses than just paper, like using DNA to make teeny tiny objects!

How do we form a memory and once it's there, how do we get it back again?

How can we boost our memory? Well there's one simple, sleepy, solution.

Sleep is important for memory but just how important? Connie Orbach went to a sleep lab to find out what happens when...

Brain training apps are a huge market, but do they actually work?

One day, satellites will help us explore the Moon and Mars...

It's been over 50 years since this satellite launched and its long-since been decommisioned but what happens when...

Why, when the rest of us have been sat in an economic downturn, has the satellite industry been booming?

Europe's Galileo will soon be operational, providing us with much more accurate navigation but why do we need it?

Space is one tough cookie to crack but there's now 3,000 satellites up there, so how have we done it?

Artificial intelligence seems like a long way off but should we considering its potential impacts now?

If we can make artificially intelligent machines, they'll need a body, but that's not very easy...

Will we find ourselves running hell for leather down Oxford Circus as scores of cyborgs mows us down from from behind?