Interviews with Scientists

We speak with Anthony Dean about his experience of being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.

Using magnets to synchronise the spin of tumour molecules, exposing them to imaging technology

How scientists are exploiting biological markers to improve the diagnosis of cancer

Tracking cancer tumours from fragments of DNA left behind in blood

What causes cancer, and how are the causes of cancer conducted?

Could turbine rearrangement increase the amount of energy we get from wind farms?

Chimps use similar conceptual metaphors to the human "top of the tree" or "bottom of the pile" to...

Where do the cells lining the airway arise, and how does smoking affect them?

A new phylum of bacteria are uncovered in the human intestine...

Can bacterial fingerprints reveal when and where a person died?

Nadja Mannowetz has discovered the potassium ion channel in human sperm

A group of asteroids following Mars's orbit may be fragments from the collision of much larger asteroids.

When black holes merge, they emit gravitational waves. But no such waves have yet been detected, ruling out some ideas...

Comet ISON will pass within two Sun radii of the Sun's surface in November. But astronomers remain unsure how...

Dave Ansell and Ginny Smith use cabbage juice to show what effect carbon dioxide has on the atmosphere...

Dave Ansell and Ginny Smith make a volcanic crater using flour and a balloon, as well as answering questions from the...

Dave Ansell and Ginny Smith make a flame Tornado to explain how the weather phenomena form...

How can studying seismology help us understand and possibly predict earthquakes and volcanoes?

The tsunami which hit Japan in 2011 killed over 10,000 people and made hundreds of thousands homeless - but how did an...

Volcanologist Tehnuka Ilanko explains what volcanic gases can tell us about Magma and answers questions from the...

Protein aptamers against resistance mechanisms in bacteria resensitises resistant bugs to old antibiotic agents...

Using genetic techniques, scientists are screening for new drug molecules to which bacteria struggle to develop...

Rapid DNA-sequencing technology can be used to identify quickly the bacteria responsible for causing an infection...

New technologies that can rapidly read the DNA sequences of bacteria can be used to study how different bugs move...