Interviews with Scientists

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

12 October 2014

Researchers have published results from the biggest ever study looking at how genetic variation in people affects...

12 October 2014

Dr Jennifer Tullett is studying the links between metabolism - how animals create and use energy - and ageing.

02 October 2014

Bacteria and fungal cells join forces to cause rice seedling blight.

02 October 2014

A set of 149 papers that were retracted due to misconduct had been funded to the tune of $58m by the NIH.

02 October 2014

A suppression hierarchy determines the order in which a fly cleans the different parts of its body.

02 October 2014

Changes in lifestyle mean that new outbreaks of Ebola virus disease are likely to be very different to previous...

02 October 2014

Why do some yeast cells grow old whereas others do not?

01 October 2014

Tiny sensors that harvest energy from passing cars, people or even the flow of your blood may one day be powering...

01 October 2014

Plants are hugely efficient at creating energy from sunlight. Now researchers are trying to capture sunlight to make...

01 October 2014

Scientists promise us a future where solar cells can be sprayed onto surfaces, so cars, buildings and streets could...

01 October 2014

We need to increase performance of wind and wave powered systems to better harness the potential of these free, clean...

29 September 2014

If it's highly unlikely that we'll ever be able to detect intelligent life, should we continue on in our...

26 September 2014

Taking inspiration from mussels, scientists have made a super-strong glue-like substance that even works underwater...

26 September 2014

Planck has published data which might contradict BICEP's claimed discovery of gravity waves from the Big Bang...

25 September 2014

Some people take a week to recovery from surgery, other months. But why? And can we tell who will recover fastest?

25 September 2014

What's better when it comes to caterpillar camouflage, brightly-coloured, or blending in?

25 September 2014

The latest in the fight against antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria.

25 September 2014

What are the odds that there is intelligent life out there, and could we communicate with it?

25 September 2014

Can we measure the atmospheric composition of exoplanets?

25 September 2014

Could there have been life on Mars, and if so, could we see it in the Red Planet's geological record? Dr Lewis...

25 September 2014

A big part of finding ET is understanding what life actually is. We speak to Nick Lane to find out how life and non...

23 September 2014

3D printing can also be used at the nano-scale, creating scaffolding which can be used to give materials new...

23 September 2014

Cambridge based company Dovetailed have developed a process to print fruit, including ones that don’t even exist, like...

23 September 2014

Could 3D printers ever save us a trip to the pharmacy by allowing us to print out prescription drugs at home?