Interviews with Scientists

Interviews about medicine, science, technology and engineering with scientists and researchers internationally...

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...

23 January 2013

An Oxford Don is up all night marvelling over the fact that brain and behaviour is a two way street...

23 January 2013

The Naked Scientists don’t just sit in the buff in the studio interviewing scientists. Oh no! We also get dressed and...

23 January 2013

We discuss the ethical and social implications of 'Smart Drugs'

23 January 2013

Scientists scrutinise the brain in an attempt to get to the bottom of stereotypical adolescent behaviours...

20 January 2013

What is it like to take part in clinical research?