Interviews with Scientists

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...

Higher stress levels may make people more risk averse meaning that brokers take fewer risks in difficult financial...

An infection control nurse shows us how best to wash our hands.

How do hospitals protect their patients against Norovirus and how much does it cost them every year?

How does the virus spread, and for how long do people stay infected with it for?

We find out about the norovirus, or the winter vomiting bug, that affects up to 1 million people a year.