Interviews with Scientists

Interviews about medicine, science, technology and engineering with scientists and researchers internationally...

09 February 2015

What information is emanating from your armpits and what does it reveal to a potential partner about you?

09 February 2015

The way a woman sounds varies with her menstrual cycle and is an unconscious indicator of fertility...

09 February 2015

Do online dating sites really work? Could we use clever computing to create the ultimate super-profile to help meet...

09 February 2015

Researchers take a red pen to the explanation for one of the most famous school chemistry experiments in which sodium...

09 February 2015

How sperm gear themselves up to fertilise an egg is very difficult to study. But now remote controlled sperm shed light...

09 February 2015

Would a Scottish chimp and Dutch chimp be able to converse with one another?

09 February 2015

Electronic devices with bright screens could be disrupting the sleep patterns of teenagers...

09 February 2015

The House of Commons voted by 382 to 128 to allow mitochondrial donation through a controversial amendment to...

07 February 2015

Researchers at Imperial College are unpicking how faults in a giant gene called Titin can cause heart disease.

07 February 2015

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

07 February 2015

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

06 February 2015

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

06 February 2015

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

06 February 2015

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

06 February 2015

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

06 February 2015

Light can be used to control the motility of sperm.

02 February 2015

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

02 February 2015

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

02 February 2015

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

02 February 2015

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

02 February 2015

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

02 February 2015

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

02 February 2015

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

02 February 2015

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