Interviews with Scientists

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

03 August 2015

How do sex hormones work, and what happens when you start taking supplements?

03 August 2015

Extra hammocks are the key to keeping hamsters happy, but how do you ever know how an animal is feeling?

03 August 2015

A little digging has revealed there's more to some dinosaurs' teeth than meets the eye...

03 August 2015

You might think it’s the weather getting you down, but could bacteria be to blame for some of the symptoms of...

03 August 2015

Research implies street lights can come off with no increase in crimes or crashes.

03 August 2015

The Philae lander has detected complex, organic molecules on comet 67P, four of which have never been found on comets...

27 July 2015

Mosquitoes are becoming an increasing problem with the spread of disease, but in order to tackle them we first need to...

27 July 2015

For the egg and sperm to combine their DNA they first both have to be in the same format, but what is the sperm's...

27 July 2015

Cancer is caused by gene mutation but how much is too much and could increasing mutations lead to new treatments?

27 July 2015

How do some animals navigate the world without maps? A neuron in worms has been discovered that can detect the earth...

21 July 2015

One of the seven problems have been solved but the Russian who found the solution refused the money. We hear his story...

21 July 2015

If you have to pop the shoe shop, the bank and the grocers, which way is quickest? How do computers work this out and...

21 July 2015

If the Navier Stokes equation is solved, it would lead to advances in a huge number of fields, including travel,...

21 July 2015

Primes are the atoms of number theory, but we still can't work out how they're distributed on a number line...

21 July 2015

The Millennium Maths Problems, if solved, could revolutionise our World but what will it take to crack them? And what...

21 July 2015

Screaming is something we're all programmed to do but why and what makes a scream so alarming?

21 July 2015

You can pay for your shopping using your iPhone, thanks to Apple Pay! How is this and tech like it changing the way we...

21 July 2015

A binge-eating fish in Mexico shares a genetic mutation found in obese people but unlike humans, these fish stay...

21 July 2015

The Cambridge University Eco Racing team have unveiled their solar powered car, Evolution ahead of the World Solar...

21 July 2015

The decay-fighting ingredient in toothpaste - sodium fluoride - can predict your heart attack risk.

14 July 2015

Do you have what it takes to become a drone racer?

14 July 2015

EDSAC is one of the mos important computers in British history, and is currently being recreated in a Cambridge garage...

14 July 2015

It’s time for our mythical Gene of the Month - and this time it’s Ariadne.

14 July 2015

Researchers are finding more and more roles in cells for small fragments of RNA, as Cold Spring Harbor's Rob...