Superglue could be used to recycle plastic into more useful products
Interviews with Scientists
Interviews about medicine, science, technology and engineering with scientists and researchers internationally...
07 February 2013
And finally, our gene of the month is Amontillado, a gene with a rather macabre twist. Horror fans may know 19th...
07 February 2013
Joan Steitz at Yale University has worked on RNA for more than three decades, and specialises in the small RNAs...
07 February 2013
Susan Gottesman from the Centre for Cancer Research in Bethesda, Maryland, is an expert on bacterial RNAs.
07 February 2013
Researchers have used genetics to answer questions about how dogs may have become domesticated
07 February 2013
The first thing we’ve picked out is a really interesting story about quadruplex DNA which sounds like this big new,...
07 February 2013
Everyone’s heard of DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid to give it its full name - the blueprint of life that encodes the...
07 February 2013
A spinoff of that Wi-Fi is a Li-Fi. This is a system that uses visible light to send information into mobile devices...
07 February 2013
Avian pox affects a number of bird species, but it was discovered in UK’s population of great tits in 2006...
07 February 2013
This month Asteroid 2012 DA14 a 130.000 Ton lump of rock will pass just 24,000 km from Earth. That’s closer than many...
07 February 2013
A number of enterprising individuals are developing ways to harvest and mine asteroids for the minerals that they may...
07 February 2013
How did the solar system, from massive gas planets like Jupiter down to tiny asteroids, form? New computer modelling...
31 January 2013
A "housekeeping" process inside cells, known as autophagy, could hold the key to blocking HIV and even...
31 January 2013
In winter the sea may look dull, grey and lifeless but the creatures that live there know that some areas have far more...
31 January 2013
Tasmanian Devils are under threat from a unique contagious cancer. A new project is underway to save the species...
31 January 2013
Devil Facial Tumour Disease is able to evade the immune system. New epigenetic studies show how...
31 January 2013
Understanding how the immune system sees cancer could help us find new ways to treat or prevent the disease...
29 January 2013
We close with the enigma of integration, with Professor Sir John Gurdon from Cambridge University.
28 January 2013
A new technique transforms hair-producing cells from the scalp into networks of nerve cells that can be used to study...
28 January 2013
Can we stimulate new nerve cells to form in our brains, or are we stuck with the number that we are born with? We...