Interviews with Scientists

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

17 February 2015

Scientists have found the best evidence yet that the centre of our galaxy contains significant amounts of dark matter.

17 February 2015

What makes some violins sound better than others? To find out, physicists have subjected hundreds of the instruments to...

17 February 2015

A self-regulating insulin molecule, that works by sensing blood sugar levels, could revolutionise type 1 diabetes...

16 February 2015

How leaving your WiFi 'on' is haemorrhaging personal information to the world, like where you eat, sleep and...

09 February 2015

We explore how maths can define attraction, organise the wedding, and even help maintain love long-term!

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?