Interviews with Scientists

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...

Scientists have been using X-rays to examine magnetism in meteorites dating from the dawn of the solar system...

Roman scrolls burned and buried two thousand years ago when Mount Vesuvius erupted are being read successfully by...

The explosive incident that had me laid up on a stretcher, with a scrubbed up attending doctor, driving back to the...

Braving the congested roads of Kolkata with an anesthetist, who took Hannah to one of his favourite spots in the city...

After neurological tests and psychiatric assesments, Babu's results are revealed and his treatment advised...

How does mental health stigma in India compare to the UK? And do the class and caste systems here affect treatments?

Getting to grips with Babu's medical mystery by analysing his footprints....

The story of an ambitious fruit stall boy who travelled the world, worked in brain surgery and then came home to India...

A grand opening of the 150 bed Institute of Neurosciences, Kolkata.

12 years after it went missing on Mars, the Beagle 2 probe has been found unharmed...

How well do your friends know you? A computer that uses Facebook "likes" is a better predictor of your...

Inaccurate perceptions of science subjects could be putting women off pursuing STEM subjects, according to a new study...

Where did the ingredients for life come from? A new study suggests that deep-space sugars could hold the key...

Should we be adapting our lifestyle to suit our sleep needs? A new study with teenagers suggests we should be...

Lucid dreaming is the ability to take control of your dreams. But how do you do it...?

Almost all of us will at some point blurt out nonsense during our sleep, but why do we say what we say?

Sleep deprivation: an unfortunate reality in people's lives. Soldiers live on just 4 hours sleep a night for...

What happens to the brain's biochemistry when we sleep, and is sleep deprivation a risk factor for...

Our gene of the month sounds like a Scottish warrior - it's Braveheart

Danielle Posthuma is taking a new approach in the search for genes involved in psychiatric disorders such as...