Interviews with Scientists

Your body clock uses colour to determine the time of day, which may even explain how colour vision evolved in the...

Research has shown bees are more likely to revisit flowers containing insecticides, despite not being able to taste...

Research has shown that your genes are responsible for how attractive you are to mosquitoes

Two drugs that can help the brain to repair damage caused by multiple sclerosis have been uncovered by a new...

This month, the space telescope turns 25! We hear about its incredible achievements...

After a quick sniff women were able to tell if sweat had come from a happy man or not...

Nanotech scientists have been busy making mirrors that can't get dirty and a meshwork capable of instantly...

Why first impressions last: the brain circuits that control how a rat responds to a newcomer...

Why we need to learn more about the natural history of model organisms...

Where there's beer, there's bacteria! Molecular forensics cna be used to follow bugs around breweries to...

What can experiments on flies teach us about traumatic brain injuries?

Researchers have made a breakthrough in the search for a herpes simplex virus vaccine.

Want to learn to speak gibbon? Their "hoo-hoo" calls have been 'translated' and the results are...

Running a marathon anytime soon? The length of your fingers could predict how fast you'll be able to complete it...

The Dutch are the tallest nation in the world, having grown a 20cm in the last 200 years. How did they reach such...

Palaeo-anthropologists in South Africa are inviting tourists to watch them at work excavating a new species of human...

How do we decide when someone is dead? Do we look at the heart or the brain, and do we need to redefine it?

Two-year-old Michelle Funk was trapped under the ice for over an hour without oxygen. She made a full recovery, but how...

Cryonics is the preservation of people at low temperatures, with the aim of resuscitating them in the future. So how...

Brain emulation is where you upload your brain to a computer and become immortal. But is this feasible and why...

We debate the consequences that an immortal population could could bring about...

Our gene of the month is unlikely to be mistaken for the mayor of London, despite being called Boris.

Intellectual property, or IP, is an important issue in food and agriculture. Dominic Berry explains some of the...

Different parts of the UK harbour their own distinctive genetic flavour and revealing where some of these groups...