Interviews with Scientists

Fecal transplants are becoming a common treatment for infections of the gut, but better donor screening is needed to...

How would society function on a small, dangerous planet over 30 million miles away from Earth?

Could synthetic biology allow colonists to grow their own food, oxygen or even rocket fuel using bacteria?

How would Martian settlers diagnose illnesses without the luxury of hospital equipment?

What would day-to-day life actually be like in a Mars settlement?

What would the surface of Mars be like to live on?

Plants have got bees hooked on caffeine, which may make them less efficient at foraging for nectar.

It's not just our ears that are important for learning languages, research has shown this week.

Hallucinations could help us to better understand the world around us.

Brain scans that pinpoint the source of epileptic fits have been developed.

This year's Nobelists have revolutionized the treatment of some of the world's most devastating parasitic...

For the first time, scientists have been able to grow mini-kidneys in a petri-dish!

The award wining work uncovered how cells repair damaged DNA - a fundamental mechanism in cells and important in cancer.

DNA analysis from 4,500 year old remains sheds light on how ancient humans migrated out of Africa, and then back in...

Antioxidant supplements may accelerate the spread of skin cancer...

Is winning the Nobel Prize everything its cracked up to be?

There's the radiation, the microgravity and even sound waves to think about when sending humans to the Red Planet.

Cosmic radiation can be deadly, especially if a solar storm hits. How can we protect astronauts once they leave the...

Without gravity, things get interesting (especially when it comes to showering!) as NASA astronaut Stanley G. Love...

Stanley G. Love spent two weeks in space and lost 8lbs of muscle. To go to Mars, we would need to spend nine months in...

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

Eiluned Pearce from the University of Oxford is searching for the genes involved in sociability.

Michael Kimber has discovered how tiny biological packages produced by parasitic worms can control the immune system.

A study led by researchers at the University of Oxford shows that there’s been extensive immigration into and around...