Interviews with Scientists

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...

What is the size of the superbug problem we face, and how did antibiotic-resistant bacteria arise?

Viruses called phages which can attack the Clostridium difficile - C. diff - bacterium are being developed by...

What happens to a tunnel in an earthquake? We discover how sand can liquefy...

What does tunnelling under big cities turn up for archaeologists?

What do engineers need to know in order to construct tunnels?

How did Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his father construct the first under-river tunnel?

How many brain cells does it contain? How heavy is it? And how does it work? We take a quick fire science tour round...

Oxford researcher Rafael Wlodarski has been quizzing people about their kissing habits and what it actually means to...

How do the tunelling machines digging a new underground train tunnel in London actually work?