Interviews with Scientists

And finally, it’s time for our gene of the month, and this time - Oh my God, they killed Kenny!

Professor Robert Plomin from Kings College London explains why twins are so interesting to geneticists, and what they...

Meaghan Jones is studying a group of Canadian children looking at the genetic, epigenetic and environmental triggers of...

David Van Heel has been studying the Born in Bradford cohort to search for so-called ‘human knockouts’.

One man who’s been digging into the Born in Bradford data is Eamonn Sheridan from Leeds University.

Professor John Wright leads the Born in Bradford study, involving thousands of families across the city, aiming to...

The iridescent wings of a tropical butterfly could hold the key to developing new highly, selective gas detection...

In the 1960s, only 5% of seabirds where found to have eaten plastic; now that figure has reached 90%.

Headlines claim 'bad' fats, like butter, may not be so bad after all, but what does the science say?

A prototype, 3D-printed robotic hand that can be made faster and cheaper than current prosethetics has won the UK leg...

This beast is not only the largest of its kind found to date, but also the oldest, roaming the oceans 460 million years...

Pupils will soon be sending mini-computers up onto the borders of space to collect data for their own analysis...

Students go in search of microrganisms to find out which species grow on what buildings - research that has never been...

Despite the media storm, evidence suggests there may not be a shortage of STEM scientists, so why does the debate...

Aged 10, Amy published her school project in a scientific journal and it changed her entire life...

For most, science is defined by textbook assignments, but this is set to change. Will 15-year olds soon be publishing...

Our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago, but how did this happen?

New Horizons' images of Pluto have reignited debate over the dwarf planet's classification: should Pluto be...

The New Horizons probe has provided vast quantities of data on Pluto, but what has it told us that we didn't...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper belt, an area of space which is proving very tricky to study...

Finding meteors isn't too tricky, but working out where they came from is a different kettle of fish altogether...

Philae touched down on a comet back in 2014 but what has this revealed about the Kuiper Belt?

Should our time and money be going towards projects that are closer to home?

A new cancer treatment, which uses MRI scanners to target tumours, has been unveiled...