Interviews with Scientists

When we donate blood, what are we actually giving away and how?

Before we started transfusion, we had rather a different approach to blood based treatment...

How a new DNA sequencer, in a tent, in Sierra Leone could be crucial to cutting ebola transmission chains...

Is sitting down at work harming your health?

How your health history could literally go viral, as researchers announce a test to uncover every virus that ever...

What does science sound like? Sonification can turn data measurements, from experiments like CERN's, into music...

The LHC is back up and running after almost 2 years of maintenance. Why did it take so long to turn it back on?

Individuals who don't feel pain have led scientists to a pain-sensing gene, which may lead to new analgesic...

New portable monitoring devices, that plug into your smartphone, could help doctors diagnose anything from diabetes to...

Robots are being given 'simulated childhoods' so they become 'unbreakable' when out on a mission.

Sound waves may be key to creating the perfect cheese, new research from Australia reveals...

Opinions on whether babies can feel pain have been divided but new research suggests they might be able to...

Dark matter makes up a quarter of our universe but we don't know what is it! Scientists could be about to change...

Dark Matter might be made by colliding protons in the Large Hadron Collider, at CERN...

The biggest dark matter detector is now under construction. It will be so senstive to radiation, scientists can't...

Scientists have been looking for dark matter for nearly 100 years, but why does finding it matter?

We finally find out what has happened to Jolle's stickleback fish!

Bats use echolocation - ultrasound sonar - to find their way around and to hunt down prey. But how do they do it?

How do slithering snakes swallow prey so much bigger than their own heads?

Geckos can hold up two humans!

Why can some birds use tools?

Learn how Caterpillars "Fake it till they make it" to safety

To understand the underground moles have developed super sensitive faces...

This tiddler of British waters camouflages by changing colour...