Interviews with Scientists

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?

It’s time to take a look at the top stories from this month

Insights into a common mental health disorder...

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...