Interviews with Scientists

Professor Trevor Robbins, has just been announced as one of the winners of the Grete Lundbeck Brain Prize for 2014.

Could genetic tests help diagnose people who are at risk of developing psychiatric conditions and catch them before...

Harriet went to one of the biggests events at the Cambridge Science Festival, run by Chaos, to check out some of...

Where you live and work, and how many take-away restaurants are nearby, can affect your waste-line as well as your...

Sharing a name with the cute but havoc-wreaking creatures in the classic 80s film, Gremlin was first discovered in frog...

What can be done to reduce the risk of flood damage in future?

What can cities do to reduce the risk of flooding? Professor Nigel Wright, from Leeds University, explains the Blue-...

Jenny Mant, from the River Restoration Centre, explains how we manage river levels and how we can stop rivers from...

Flood-victim Sheila Abrams, who lives in Debden, Cambridgeshire, recounts her experience of being flooded out...

How was a marsh turned into farmland centuries ago?

Is the extreme weather of recent years a consequence of climate change? Nobel prize winner Don Wuebbles argues that it...

Gene therapy can be used to modify the immune cells of patients with HIV, to make them much harder for the virus...

This week a 13-year-old British schoolboy has become the world’s youngest person to carry out nuclear fusion...

Professor Steve Jackson explains how research into DNA damage and repair is leading to new treatments for cancer.

It’s not just things in our environment that can damage our DNA - the damage can come from within too, as Prof Dan...

Professor David Phillips and his team are figuring out how our DNA gets damaged, and which chemicals are responsible

Orphan genes appear and disappear quite quickly in Drosophila, leaving the total number of genes roughly constant...

Bacteria employ a sophisticated method to ensure that they swim in a particular direction.

Chaperones are proteins that help other proteins to fold properly, and being flexible makes chaperones better at this...

A protein called RYE – short for Redeye - has a central role in the regulation of sleep...

Songbirds stop listening to themselves when they start to sing...

Blaise Thomson explains how he designs spoken language interfaces to allow computers to speak to us...

How do robots help scientists with their work every day in the lab?

Paul Meacham explains the challenges he faces while working on building the ExoMars Rover...