Interviews with Scientists

Mike Ambrose managed the Germplasm Resources Unit at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, preserving crop seeds for the...

Can you poor a cup of steaming hot tea from a teapot made entirely of chocolate?

Can a mere six eggs support a grown person's weight?

Easter Island is one of the most isolated places on Earth and the statues stand at over 40 feet, but how did they get...

Could a chocolate bar become the next health food?

A crafty way of getting a hard boiled egg into a milk bottle without touching it. Beware: results may vary!

Resurrection is a key symbol of Easter, but some plants can do it at any time of year, which could be key to a new...

How useless would a chocolate teapot be? Only one way to find out...

Genetically modified chickens that are immune to bird flu could be a reality soon. Only one caveat: they're...

Surprise friends with a weird, squishy egg that has lost the hard parts of its shell.

Where does the Easter Bunny get his eggs from? Because we all know rabbits don't lay eggs... right?

How to tell is your egg is boiled or not...

Your school textbook got it wrong, it is possible to "unboil" an egg, and the process could have big...

Scientists are using motion capture technology usually more at home on a Hollywood movie set to distinguish between...

Benford's law states that many sets of numbers are not randomly distributed. This phenomenon is used to catch...

Our memories are not like a video recorder, they are often unreliable and easily influenced. How does this affect an...

Testing for drugs and toxins in the body is vital to a solving whole host of crimes.

Forensic pathologists are tasked with determining how someone has died. How do they go about getting this information...

Everything at a crime scene could potentially be a piece of evidence. How do crime scene officers prevent...

Might depression be down to an abnormal immune response?

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, also known as ME, might be an autoimmune disease that impairs blood flow to nerves and...

How might the immune system cause psychotic conditions?

Where did the UK population come from? A new study reveals that the Romans didn't fancy Brits, and some counties...

Leukaemias can be reprogrammed to turn cancerous B cells into healthy macrophages...