Interviews with Scientists

Research published just this week offers new solutions to a long-standing problem – What are ultra-luminous X-ray...

Epigenetics may have ramifications for other areas of science, including stem cell research and treatments. Ryan Lister...

Britain’s continuing wet weather has highlighted a serious problem facing towns and cities – urban flooding. Rather...

Epigenetics provides new insights for the treatment of malignancy...

DNA functions a bit like a recipe book which tells you to cook up the chemicals that they need to function. But...

A new scientific journal is being launched this week in Cambridge. We hear how it differs to existing journals and why...

A genetic trigger that can cause heart muscle cells to start dividing to produce new cells...

Our gene of the month is all arty - it’s Van Gogh. A gene found in fruit flies, Van Gogh was first discovered in 1998...

Now it's time to delve a bit deeper into cancer genomes. At the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Dr Peter Campbell...

It's time to find out what happened at the Genetics Society Autumn Meeting, which was held at the Royal Society in...

At its heart, cancer is a disease caused by faulty and damaged genes. It’s usually a combination of the damage we pick...

For the last decade, the Census of Marine Life has been pushing back the boundaries of what we know about ocean...

Humans have been exploring the oceans above and beneath the waves for thousands of years, most recently into the dark...

Humans enter our story of the history of the oceans

Giant reptiles cruised the oceans in the Mesozoic

3 billion years later, signs of complex life in the oceans begins to emerge

The story of the oceans begins 3.5 billion years ago with living rocks that made the earth habitable.

Pitcairn is a British Overseas Territory in the south Pacific. It’s 4500 km from New Zealand and is most famous for...

A new system allows citizen scientists to help identify bat calls, allowing anyone to become a bat detective...

What can neutrons tell us? And how can you study them? Martyn Bull takes Naked Scientist Ben Valsler on a tour of...

The ISIS neutron source is used by a wide range of researchers to understand the properties of materials, and find out...

A novel printing technique can print replacement cartilage in 3d...