Researchers have used stem cells to make neural implants more refined and with less scar...
Interviews with Scientists
Interviews about medicine, science, technology and engineering with scientists and researchers internationally...
25 October 2013
Dave Ansell and Ginny Smith use cabbage juice to show what effect carbon dioxide has on the atmosphere...
25 October 2013
Dave Ansell and Ginny Smith make a volcanic crater using flour and a balloon, as well as answering questions from the...
25 October 2013
Dave Ansell and Ginny Smith make a flame Tornado to explain how the weather phenomena form...
25 October 2013
How can studying seismology help us understand and possibly predict earthquakes and volcanoes?
25 October 2013
The tsunami which hit Japan in 2011 killed over 10,000 people and made hundreds of thousands homeless - but how did an...
25 October 2013
Volcanologist Tehnuka Ilanko explains what volcanic gases can tell us about Magma and answers questions from the...
21 October 2013
Protein aptamers against resistance mechanisms in bacteria resensitises resistant bugs to old antibiotic agents...
21 October 2013
Using genetic techniques, scientists are screening for new drug molecules to which bacteria struggle to develop...
21 October 2013
Rapid DNA-sequencing technology can be used to identify quickly the bacteria responsible for causing an infection...
21 October 2013
New technologies that can rapidly read the DNA sequences of bacteria can be used to study how different bugs move...
21 October 2013
What is the size of the superbug problem we face, and how did antibiotic-resistant bacteria arise?
21 October 2013
Viruses called phages which can attack the Clostridium difficile - C. diff - bacterium are being developed by...
15 October 2013
What happens to a tunnel in an earthquake? We discover how sand can liquefy...
15 October 2013
What does tunnelling under big cities turn up for archaeologists?
15 October 2013
What do engineers need to know in order to construct tunnels?
15 October 2013
How did Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his father construct the first under-river tunnel?
15 October 2013
How many brain cells does it contain? How heavy is it? And how does it work? We take a quick fire science tour round...
15 October 2013
Oxford researcher Rafael Wlodarski has been quizzing people about their kissing habits and what it actually means to...
15 October 2013
How do the tunelling machines digging a new underground train tunnel in London actually work?
15 October 2013
Who are our brains for this programme? Plus we find out their burning neuroscience questions.
07 October 2013
How much steroid is needed to switch on a single gene?
07 October 2013
Cells undergoing programmed cell death release signals that trigger apoptosis in distant cells.
07 October 2013
Mice growing in an environment with lots of stimuli are less social and more territorial than mice that grow up in more...
07 October 2013
Computational techniques have shed fresh light on how C4 photosynthesis evolved from C3 photosynthesis.