Why some scientists are predicting a particularly bad cold and flu season this year
Interviews with Scientists
Interviews about medicine, science, technology and engineering with scientists and researchers internationally...
02 August 2011
A major landmark in ocean science was reached in October 2010 with the completion of the world’s first Census of Marine...
19 July 2011
We explore how carbon dates can be statistically analysed in order to look at prehistoric England and causewayed...
13 July 2011
An exclusive glimpse into the making-of Naked Oceans season one.
07 July 2011
How do jet engines actually work? One simple way to think about it is Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow. The engine sucks air...
07 July 2011
How should astronomers go about communicating their work? Mark Thompson is President of Norwich Astronomical Society,...
07 July 2011
Climatologists and geologists have developed a number of ways to estimate the temperature on Earth going back a very...
07 July 2011
What would our solar system look like to extra-solar observers? Dr Chris Stark, from the Carnigie Institute in...
07 July 2011
Should we ever want to visit our astronomical neighbours, we will first need to get over a lot of technological,...
07 July 2011
How do we spot planets in the glare of their parent star? Ben Oppenheimer is associate curator of astrophysics at the...
07 July 2011
Gerd discusses the aims of getting the public in to see Diamond at work...
07 July 2011
We meet some Diamond engineers and technicians and discover their role at the Lightsource...
07 July 2011
Danny Axford discusses the biological insight made possible by the microfocus macromolecular crystallography beamline...
07 July 2011
Simone Weyand discusses her new insight into the workings of antihistamines...
05 July 2011
Hugh Hunts explains what needs to be considered when designing a bomb to bounce across water....
26 June 2011
We find out why some people suffer pain from injuries that took place many years ago...
26 June 2011
We explore how to detect damage and deterioration in bridges and other structures to keep them lasting longer...
26 June 2011
Fact Impact: A high-speed run-down of facts about Galaxies
19 June 2011
The Square Kilometre Array, or SKA, should help us to answer some of the big outstanding questions about our universe...
19 June 2011
Radiocarbon dating is an extremely accurate and useful tool to date archaeological finds which contain any previously...