Interviews with Scientists

Ironically, action movies make us reach for the popcorn more often, a new study has shown...

What is biomimicry and how can we copy nature?

How one beetle inspired a project that made deserts green again...

How do insects sense sound? We hear from a scientist using this information to design the world's smallest...

Spider silk has a range of useful properties that could be used in a huge range of applications. But can we make it...

The Daily Mail published an article titled 'Myth of ARCTIC meltdown' and we wondered how this squared with...

How would you like to email your GP, a good idea or bad idea?

Seven thousand languages are spoken worldwide. But why are many on the brink of extinction, and which ones?

General Fusion are a company trying a combination of methods to try and create energy but their methods are...

Why do we need nuclear fusion when we have renewable energy?

What is nuclear fusion? Many of us might have heard the term kicked around before but do we know what it means. We...

People are pouring ice cold buckets of water over themselves in aid of ALS, a form of motor neurone disease - but...

The tokamak method isn't the only way to creat fusion, scientists are trying laser fusion...

The Joint European Torus initiative and what it means for the future of energy...

Bird brained? In an experiment, both humans and pigeons were shown to assess risk in the same way.

Scientists can now spot the signs of dementia a lot earlier than ever before by using your eyes.

How common is depression in cancer and is it affected by the type of cancer diagnosis?

Scientists using quasars - massive black holes - to understand the origin of light in our universe

Honeybees are used worldwide as pollinators, but as numbers dwindle their price is increasing. Could bumblebees...

You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. A motto you may not expect in the microbial world, but evidence has been...

How did Ebola and HIV first infect humans? Analysing viral DNA holds the answers to their evolutionary history.

New ideas in treating mental illness such as depression could mean that video games replace the iconic psychiatrist...

Bacteria are getting more and more resistant to antibiotics like penicillin. A way around this might be to use viruses...

Did our closest planetary neighbour ever habour life? And how would we ever find it?