Interviews with Scientists

Interviews about medicine, science, technology and engineering with scientists and researchers internationally...

25 January 2016

How the world's telescopes are joining forces to try and see the unseeable: the shadow cat by the event horizon...

25 January 2016

Black holes light up the Universe by creating quasars, which can in turn affect how galaxies evolve.

25 January 2016

Event horizons, singularities and time dilation: we get to the bottom of the weird physics of black holes.

25 January 2016

A burial site discovered near Cambridge has provided DNA evidence to unpick the history of the UK.

25 January 2016

Why you can't catch the 'flu from a killed vaccine...

25 January 2016

Spider-man would either need to be very small, or have size 89 feet, to manage to stick to buildings...

25 January 2016

The first brain implant which doesn't need surgery to be removed has been developed.

25 January 2016

Could ultrasound be causing some people to suffer?

25 January 2016

Time seems to have a forward direction - eggs don't unscramble for example but in physics, that's not the...

25 January 2016

Time seems to have a clear and irreversible direction; physics doesn't recognise this though. This problem has...

25 January 2016

The idea of time being infinite is not a new concept but could solve many of our problems in physics when considering...

25 January 2016

We can debate the matter endless within the realms of philosophy but what do current cosmological observations support?

19 January 2016

So we've all eaten and drunk too much over Christmas, it's probably time to detox. But is it really possible?

19 January 2016

Those of us with western diets are missing some diversity in our gut bacteria. What might have caused this, and could...

19 January 2016

Scientists have discovered a unique brainwave pattern that can signal when a person has been effectively anaesthetised.

19 January 2016

Where do winter, spring, summer and autumn come from?

19 January 2016

What caused the biggest explosion astronomers have ever seen? The evidence points to the cataclysmic death of a star.

19 January 2016

How common really is hibernation and how do animals know when to bed down and when to wake up?

19 January 2016

It's often forgotten that plants are also hibernators, but without nerves to sense, how to they know when to...

19 January 2016

What can hibernators teach us about neurodegenerative diseases like alzheimers?

11 January 2016

Will flexible screens let us have Harry Potter style newspapers?

11 January 2016

When it comes to hayfever or any other allergies, you can blame your neanderthal ancestors...

11 January 2016

Row seven of the periodic table has been completed with the discovery of four super-heavy metals...

05 January 2016

Take a look around you, no two people are alike. Even within ourselves, we're always changing but just how much...