Interviews with Scientists

Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, the inventor of DNA fingerprinting, explains where he thinks the technology is heading

Natalia spoke earlier about growing up and studying in St Petersburg, and her current work in Europe. Would she ever...

Are human and rodent brains similar? Can you take live human brain tissue, slice it, and study it in the dish to find...

Immersing my self in Russian culture: the banya and getting whipped with birch leaves.....

Moving from infant brain development to the teenage brain, with a shock finding on how nicotine in cigarettes affects...

Dr Rosamund Langston, Dundee University, taking a twist with neuroscience, looking at infants to better understand...

How Russian neuroscience research is getting a collosal injection of cash from the government.

Why would two Scottish based neuroscientists organise a conference in Siberia? What are the Russian strengths in...

From Irkutsk neuroscientists took a holiday to get over the jetlag and relax before the science began.

Does our mood affect the way we taste food? Paul Breslin explains what happens to our taste for fat when we're...

Kristine Larson explains how she uses GPS not for locations but to detect volcanic plumes and measure snow depth...

Ramsey Faragher tells us how smart phones can be used to track people in buildings to within a metre radius...

Markus Kuhn explains how GPS spoofing could be used to lie about our locations and how we can improve security...

Naked Scientist Dominic Ford hopped on a train to find out how LED technology is being commercialised in the UK's...

LEDs: energy efficient lighting could replace the wasteful incandescent bulbs and compact flourescent bulbs that take...

Do energy saving lightbulbs affect your sleep cycle? We find out.....

A viral vector endowed with the gene for a flu-neutralising antibody turns airway cells into antibody factories to...

The strange case of the galaxy which flared in brightness overnight.

A gas cloud at the centre of our galaxy may soon find itself swallowed by a black hole.

The Herschel Telescope has caught images of stars forming around the centre of our galaxy.

Gavin Flematti discusses how a chemical in bushfire smoke helps plants to germinate.

Alex Webb tells us how plants have their own body clock, and how they don't like to be woken up too early in the...

Dr. Kamoun discusses how the pathogen behind the Great Irish Potato Famine was discovered.

Scientists have created "super wheat" by crossing modern strains with the crop's ancestors. Phil Howell...