Interviews with Scientists

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...

James Field has just launched a new company called LabGenius, capitalising on the growing interest in synthetic...

To find out more about synthetic biology, and where it all started, I spoke to Professor Richard Kitney from Imperial...

Just four microbes could be the difference between whether someone develops asthma or not.

How the magnetic properties of galfenol can be used to send super fast signals and protect passengers in car crashes.

Why do animals make turns when they're running away from a predator?

A new fizzing powder stops bleeding in its tracks...

Are you one of those people who never forgets a fact but can’t remember a face? If so, you can probably blame your...

With so many people applying, how does NASA choose its astronauts?

How fit do you have to be to go to space and how do we test for it in advance?

What sort of person would you like to have as a companion in isolation?

Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut, reveals all about her journey into orbit alongside a team of Russian...

It takes more than just the individual to get an astronaut into space, who are the unsung heroes of space travel?

The region of the brain that links stress and depression has been identified.

The distribution of brain atrophy in patients with Parkinson's Disease has a network structure.