Interviews with Scientists

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

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

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

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

What is it like to take part in clinical research?

The mood symptoms of Parkinson's Disease...

What is Parkinson's like for patients?

How stem cell technology is teaching us about Parkinson's...

Kick-starting the programme, I went in search of answers about Parkinson's disease. First up, I wanted to get...

At least some aspect of our body mass index is encoded in our genes...

It’s time to take a voyage in our gene of the month - it’s glass bottom boat, or gbb.

Now it’s time to meet the Rinkidinks. These creatures are the creation of Dr Tiffany Taylor, an evolutionary biologist...

Now for some other fascinating animals – pandas. I saw in the latest issue of Nature Genetics from Shancen Zhao that...

One study that's very interesting is looking at how a quarter of the cow genome actually came from snakes or is...

We finish the final episode of Naked Oceans by pondering what great discoveries might lie ahead

What solutions will be needed to fix the future problems in the oceans?

We ask a bunch of oceans experts if they are optimistic or pessimistic about the future of the oceans.

Which threats to the ocean will be greatest concern in the years to come?

The Planet Earth team find out how the East Anglian Fen lands are helping to model climate change through peat......

We’ve already heard about AM and FM, but now, there's also DAB – that's digital audio broadcast. The BBC...

We find out how microphones capture sound by asking Naked Scientist Dave Ansell if he could build one from scratch, and...

How can my voice reach you at home? We explore the science and the technology of radio broadcasting, to find out how a...

This week, scientists have uncovered residues of 7,000-year-old cheese. Chemist Professor Richard Evershed from the...

What areas of neuroscience get a professor excited?