Why some scientists are predicting a particularly bad cold and flu season this year
Interviews with Scientists
Interviews about medicine, science, technology and engineering with scientists and researchers internationally...
Kirsten Gottschalk visits the future site of the Square Kilometer Array in the Australian outback...
And closing this month’s show, Professor Fred Gage from the Salk Institute California describes what's been...
We find out about a new treatment for addiction and posttraumatic stress disorder.
Finding out how someone with alcholism re-wrote the script in his brain to help beat addiction.
Glasses-free 3D screens normally have to be viewed from a specific angle. Now a team from HP Labs have overcome this...
The UK has a potential wealth of tidal energy, as Richard Hollingham discovered at Liverpool's Albert Docks...
Cinema lecturer Dr Leo Enticknap discusses whether we're entering a 'digital dark age' as we struggle to...
Store and ignore formats are hard to come by for digital data. Now a team at Harvard university have managed to store...
PhD student Christian Steinruecken discusses his work on data compression...
Professor John O'Keefe discusses how researchers are combining virtual reality and treadmills to map navigation in...
A new range of antibiotics are being developed to target the gene expression of bacteria...
'Liking' things on Facebook may give away more than you realise. A new study used 'likes' to...
Hawksbill turtles are critically endangered, and their numbers continue to decline. Now, new research shows a glimmer...
We ask Matt Waldon how we tackle Cholera in the modern world and find out how the disease could have reached Haiti...
Medical Historian Richard Barnett tells the story of the epidemiologist John Snow and asks whether we've...
PhD student Ankur Mutreja discusses his work; sequencing the genome of cholera bacteria in order to track the 7th...
How turtles mate, and the prospects for sub-sea energy generation.