Interviews with Scientists

Could the immune system cause schizophrenia in some cases? Antibodies targeting certain nerve cells are present in some...

Avatars allow schizophrenia patients to confront the voices they hear, allowing them to regain control over them.

What can ketamine reveal about what causes schizophrenia?

An intelligent surgical device can chemically analyse tissue to distinguish between healthy and cancerous cells...

Features editor Peter Rogers has a selection of some choice morsels that have appeared this month in the journal.

How does the immune system detect form pathogens - virus and bacteria - at the molecular level?

Agamemnon Otero talks to us about Repowering London, a programme promoting the cooperative ownership of solar energy...

Magneto-hydrodynamic Solar cells use powerful magnets to separate the charges in a solar-produced plasma, generating...

The EU EnAlgae project is aiming to capture the solar energy-harvesting potential of algae for domestic and industrial...

A Cambridge team test the limits of solar power as they prepare to race a car across the Australian outback fueled only...

Our gene of the month is Antennapedia, which literally means “antenna feet”.

Female mammals have two X chromosomes, while males are XY. This double dose of X can cause problems, as Professor Edith...

The UK government has given the green light to 3-person IVF. We take a look at the technology and implications.

The US Supreme Court has ruled that Myriad Genetics can't keep their BRCA gene patents. What are the implications?

The way that we do sex - at least on a genetic level - isn’t the only way to do it. To find out more, I spoke to...

Why do tumours become resistant to chemotherapy? New modelling research reveals ways to stop this from happening...

What can we learn from huge surveys of the sky?

How do we know dark matter exists and how do we detect it?

Can the need for dark matter in cosmology be escaped by modifying the laws of gravity?

What do we know about dark matter and dark energy? Catherine Heymans gives me an update.

Until now, it was thought red dwarf stars could host habitable planets. But are their solar winds too strong?

What can we learn from huge surveys of the sky?

With his own telescope Tom Boles has personally discovered more supernovae than any other human in history. But how has...

With his own telescope Tom Boles has personally discovered more supernova than any other human in history. I asked him...