Interviews with Scientists

A round up the week's science news including the planting of vaccines, lie detection, elements at risk and...

Researchers in Cambridge have created mammalian stem cells that only contain a single set of chromosomes. Most...

Socialising to lose weight, polymers for probiotics, the never-ageing plant and picturing Moon landings...

Over the last few years there have been various government schemes here in the UK to pay farmers to plant live grass...

Supercomputers are, as the name suggests, extremely powerful computing devices. They are used to model extremely...

Paul Calleja explains the workings and uses of the Cambridge University High Performance Computing Resource Cluster...

Joe Jasinski explains the workings of the World Community Grid and this supercomputer hopes to benefit benefit...

Whaling log books from the 18th and 19th centuries are providing unlikely but powerful insights into our changing...

Wallace J. Nichols picks a long distance migrant on a fascinating pan-ocean journey as our critter of the month.

Is there such a thing as sustainable whaling? And will the hunt continue? We find from the Secretary and head scientist...

Probiotics, the "friendly" bacteria, seem to have the potential to treat anxiety and depression related...

How dead dinosaurs fertilise forests, why mobile phones answer the call in emergencies, a DNA trip-switch for cancer...

Dr. Matt Mountain explains the design of the James Webb Telescope and how infra-red will be used to study the very...

Richard Hollingham explores the process of carbon capture and utilisation where the carbon removed from our atmosphere...

Pharmacologist Professor Ruth Ross has successfully weeded out some promising chemicals from the marijuana plant...

We're often looking to nature for inspiration and novel ways to treat disease. But to take chemicals from the sea...

Alan Jamieson and his team have been tackling the task of exploring the ocean's deepest points, hadal regions,...

If you shop online, you probably increasingly find yourself relying on the reviews other purchasers have posted for...

It’s 50 years this year since the drug thalidomide was withdrawn from sale after it was linked to birth defects but...

On the subject of limbs, and how they can go wrong...

It’s known that a deficiency or an excess of vitamin A, otherwise known as retinol, and its derivative retinoic acid...

Are all genes made equal? In other words, do the protein recipes that they encode all get turned out at the same rate...

Fungal infections can be deadly, but who would have guessed that yeasts have better directional sense than many humans...

As air traffic grows, the noise of aircraft is becoming an increasingly important problem. To find out what...