Interviews with Scientists

Cathie Martin is using GM technology to make even healthier fruit and veg, including some striking purple tomatoes.

To take a look at the science of GM behind the hype and headlines, I spoke to Professor Jonathan Jones at the...

Switching off the RFRP3 gene in the hypothalamus prevents stress-induced infertility in rats.

Learning more about how enzymes work could lead to the design of new enzymes.

Dopamine drives an "ultradian" clock with a period of around four hours in mice.

Specially protected messenger RNA molecules allow hibernating squirrels to warm up quickly.

Light can be used to control the motility of sperm.

Faecal transplants, or "transpoosions", might be a way to restore good bacteria to your insides. But will...

Neurologists are starting to look at gut bugs because there may be a link between your microbiome and your mental state...

How does our intestinal microbial spectrum compare with what lived in our ancestors' intestines?

The mouth is infested with microbes, so how many bugs do we swap with a kiss?

Your own cells are outnumbered by the bacteria living in and on you. Meet your microbiome!

The timing of a race during the day can seriously impact sporting performance, depending on whether you're an...

Punishments like prison don't deter psychopaths from re-offending, and new research reveals this is down to the...

Chronic stress in mothers can harm the ability to transfer nutrients to a foetus, resulting in lower birthweight babies...

Chicks, just like humans, count from left to right, which has big implications in understanding why it is we do this.

A new planetary system has been discovered and its enormous age makes ET's existence much more likely...

At the moment, plastics are produced industrially using oil as a raw material. But, in future, it might, quite...

We follow a batch of rubbish on its recycling journey...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a huge floating mass of plastic aggregated by ocean currents and caused by us.

What is a plastic, and how are plastics made? Physicist Athene Donald makes some nylon and demonstrates thermoplastics...

2015 marks the 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill's death, and the Science Museum in London has launched a new...

A drug that protects against radiation exposure, and might cut side-effects for radiotherapy patients, has worked...

Pet dogs living with humans have infected African lions with distemper virus, while people are putting pumas off their...