Superglue could be used to recycle plastic into more useful products
Interviews with Scientists
Interviews about medicine, science, technology and engineering with scientists and researchers internationally...
24 February 2014
This week Cambridge researchers identified the first biomarker for major, or clinical, depression.
20 February 2014
Closing the show from New Zeland with some Kiwi jokes.
20 February 2014
How researching Huntington’s Disease is also helping us to grasp the incredible scale of complexity of the human brain.
20 February 2014
Growing brain cells in a petri dish to form a brain network. How similar these cells are to a conscious, living human...
20 February 2014
A bank of hundreds of frozen human brains from Huntington’s Disease patients, and also healthy controls. What do they...
20 February 2014
How a bank of frozen human brains is acting as a reference library, how a Hindu resolves conflicting religious and...
18 February 2014
How do large oil spills such as the Deepwater Horizon disaster impact Tuna fish?
18 February 2014
How do children learn language and why is 'motherese', the sing song voice we speak to children in, important?
18 February 2014
Why do some children's language skills progress more quickly than others? And could a child's background...
18 February 2014
Are video games helping or halting our children's brains?
18 February 2014
Could computers ever have the power to predict our emotions and change them? or even to read our minds?
15 February 2014
UK Science Minister, David Willetts addresses the AAAS Meeting in Chicago, 2014
14 February 2014
Should scientists resort to propaganda? How do governments decide what research is funded? Join the live panel...
13 February 2014
Our gene of the month is Escargot, named after the French word for snail, but also known by the less exotic name...
11 February 2014
An astonishing 7 million tons of food and drink is thrown out in the UK every year. We dig into this waste.
11 February 2014
Refrigeration may be a bigger environmental issue than transporting food around the country...
11 February 2014
We take a look back at the last 100 years of radio...
11 February 2014
We have to get our food from where it’s grown to where we buy it and to our houses. What can we do to try and reduce...
11 February 2014
Examining Chris' shopping bag to find out the carbon footprint of his weekly shop.
06 February 2014
At the University of Manchester, Professor Matthew Cobb and his team are studying how maggots smell things.
06 February 2014
Scientists have analysed the genome of an 11,000 year old contagious dog genital cancer.
06 February 2014
Scientists have used genetic analysis to wind the evolutionary clock back on the history of dogs
06 February 2014
Researchers have carried out a small but successful trial of gene therapy for a type of blindness.
06 February 2014
Stuart Firestein, Professor of Biology at Columbia University, explained to me how our sense of smell works, and why it...