Interviews with Scientists

Ian Lipkin discusses the science behind the film Contagion which depicts the series of events that unfold with the...

With parasitic males and glowing lures to catch their dinner, female angler fish are the undisputed queens of the deep.

The jellyfish that made rabbits glow green and revolutionised science features in our list of the top 5 ocean light-...

In our rundown of top ocean light-makers, the cute bobtail makes an appearance before disappearing before your very...

Another of our top ocean light-makers is the clusterwink snail that glows like a light bulb to scare off predators.

A surreal nighttime phenomenon that's puzzled mariners for centuries was recently spotted from space.

Underwater photographer Brian Skerry picks an intelligent ocean hunter for his critter of the month.

Bioluminescence expert, Dr Edith Widder, introduces the spectacular light displays of the ocean.

Most cell types in our body are being constantly replenished, but we still get old. A sub population of cells are said...

Professor Chris Marshall discusses research on the Ras pathway and his hopes for personalised medicine making it to the...

How stable is the West Antarctic ice sheet. It’s one of the biggest questions in Climate Science. After all, if the...

The science surrounding cancer is multifaceted. It involves clinicians, chemists, geneticists, and even physicists....

Madhusudan Srinivasan discusses a new target for cancer drugs - blocking the repair of DNA...

This week's NewsFlash explores how smoking could pave the way for cocaine use, how our skin sees sunlight in order...

If you've seen a recent 3D film, you'll know that studying polarised light can be really helpful. The Cosmic...

Blue Stragglers are strange stars that don’t seem to fit the standard picture of stellar evolution. New research helps...

Haemophilia is a disorder of blood clotting factors, leading to excessive bleeding in patients. To find out what it...

Kathy High explains how changing the expression of genes can help treat diseases such as Haemophilia...

Iain McNeish discusses how adenoviruses could be used to find and kill cancerous cells within the body...

Simon Waddington explains how you could use gene therapy to treat certain disorders as early as in the womb...

Rob MacLaren explores how we can manipulate genes to restore vision in patients with inherited blindness...

You’ll remember, in the film Jurassic Park scientists manage to reconstruct dinosaurs from DNA preserved for tens of...

Maria Limberis explores how respiratory disorders such as Cystic Fibrosis can be targeted by gene therapy...

Scientists have brought language and computer science to the kitchen to teach you a language whilst you're cooking...