Interviews with Scientists

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...

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...