Interviews with Scientists

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...

A revolutionary 3D printer inspired by the Hollywood blockbuster "Terminator 2" has been developed and uses...

The process of recalling memories also involves actively forgetting things.

Eye-tracking technology can be used to influence an individual's decision-making...

Using ultrasound, scientists have successfully treated Alzheimer's disease in mice...

Scientists have homed in on how the brain gauges pain intensity...

Why "Finding Nemo" would have been a very different film, if it had been true to science...

Scientists have discovered how the kings of the colour-change, chameleons, alter their skin hue...

Nice to sniff you? Scientists have shown that people sniff their fingers twice as often after a handshake...

Light continues to perplex scientists today, so we take a look back in history to try and understand what it is...

Light is fundamental to how we see, but what happens if our eyes can no longer detect light? Could we make bionic eyes...

Light is fundamental in how we see the world around us but how do we perceive it? Do you see something different to...

How do astronomers learn about the Big Bang? By studying fossilised photons in light left over from the origin of the...

Our gene of the month is Nanog - named after the mythological Celtic land of the forever young.

Genetic counsellor and social scientists Anna Middleton explains some of the ethical issues around genome sequencing.