Interviews with Scientists

Recent research has shown bees can see iridescence on the surface of some flower petals. But how does this affect the...

We find out what keeps Professor Cori Bargmann up all night.

We navigate our way around a fruit flies brain to find out exactly how pheromones switch females onto copulation mode.

Divorce rates are on the up. Does love need a helping hand? Should science interfere? We explore this issue with...

Wendy Barclay discusses the new evidence that Coronavirus can spread from person to person..

Some species of algae produce lipids which can be converted to biofuel. But how do we effectively extract them?

Is love just a chemical reaction? We find out what goes on in your brain when you fall in love

How do male and female brains differ? Investigating fruit flies has given us an insight into the neural circuits that...

What happens in our brains during long term love and how do we react when heartbroken?

And finally, our gene of the month is Amontillado, a gene with a rather macabre twist. Horror fans may know 19th...

Joan Steitz at Yale University has worked on RNA for more than three decades, and specialises in the small RNAs...

Susan Gottesman from the Centre for Cancer Research in Bethesda, Maryland, is an expert on bacterial RNAs.

Researchers have used genetics to answer questions about how dogs may have become domesticated

The first thing we’ve picked out is a really interesting story about quadruplex DNA which sounds like this big new,...

Everyone’s heard of DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid to give it its full name - the blueprint of life that encodes the...

A spinoff of that Wi-Fi is a Li-Fi. This is a system that uses visible light to send information into mobile devices...

Avian pox affects a number of bird species, but it was discovered in UK’s population of great tits in 2006...

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...

A number of enterprising individuals are developing ways to harvest and mine asteroids for the minerals that they may...

How did the solar system, from massive gas planets like Jupiter down to tiny asteroids, form? New computer modelling...

A "housekeeping" process inside cells, known as autophagy, could hold the key to blocking HIV and even...

In winter the sea may look dull, grey and lifeless but the creatures that live there know that some areas have far more...

Tasmanian Devils are under threat from a unique contagious cancer. A new project is underway to save the species...

Devil Facial Tumour Disease is able to evade the immune system. New epigenetic studies show how...