Interviews with Scientists

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...

DNA, life’s genetic code, can be found tightly packaged inside chromosomes. And at the end of these chromosomes are...

A local election result was altered by neutron rain interacting with an e-voting computer. How can we design against...

How do E. coli kill off their siblings in an overpopulated and underresourced world? ISIS shows us how...

Best known for Brunel’s Clifton Suspension Bridge, the Avon Gorge in Bristol, southwest England is also home to several...

We investigate the power of social media by attempting to create a global Mexican Wave across twitter...

How a dose of the right DNA can dampen a seizure...

This week, the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases included a rather unusual detective story – one where rapid DNA...

Bed bug infestations are on the rise. Although UK has been relatively clear of them for the last 50 years, we are now...

Bed bugs are one of a very small handful of species who demonstrate an unusual type of mating behaviour known as ‘...

A major news story in the UK this month has been the discovery of Ash dieback disease, a fungal infection that destroys...

What happens to the hormone disrupting chemicals found in contraceptive pills or hormone replacement therapies once...

cases of bed bug infestations we’ve heard are on the rise, but how do you know you’ve actually got them and what can...

Our gene of the month is Mind Bomb. First described in zebrafish, fish with faults in their Mind Bomb gene have big...

Dr Matt Holden at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge reveals how advances in genome sequencing are helping researchers...

Tiny bacteria living in stinky mud can gang up to create tiny electrical nanowires.

Researchers have found that a person's genes may affect how likely they are to respond to the placebo effect.

Researchers have found worryingly low levels of genetic diversity in koala bears

Bacterial infections cause millions of deaths around the world every year. But countless more aren’t fatal yet cause...

Cancer spread causes 9 out of 10 cancer deaths. We’re joined by Dr. Joan Masague who is trying to understand how...