Interviews with Scientists

Publicity and fundraising campaigns often focus on the cute, charismatic or cuddly animals, possibly leaving nature’s...

You could be forgiven for thinking that microbes are not, and should not be, a conservation priority. But that’s not...

A cocktail of git bugs can successfully see off Clostridium difficile, the potentially fatal and often hospital...

When Shakespeare coined the phrase "the world is your oyster", he meant that everything was up for grabs -...

One of Britain’s most unusual landscapes can be found along its coastline. Salt marshes are home to unique species of...

Almost every species studied has its own unique species of parasite – so with every extinction we’re losing at least...

Stand Up Maths and the Festival of the Spoken Nerd

Headlines like “Palm trees grew on Antarctica” abounded when climate scientists recently found evidence that the...

We put mathematician Matt to the test and ask him to predict the last digit of listeners shopping product barcodes!

How do we hear? How does the ear convert sound waves into messages to be interpretted by the brain and what goes wrong...

What is a hearing aid and how does it work? What are the issues involved in designing them? We spoke to a hearing aid...

How do we tell where a sound is coming from and what issues do hearing-impaired listeners have with finding the source...

Big news for Cambridge University, as Embryologist Sir John Gurdon learned that he had won the Physiology and Medicine...

Forests cover almost 1/3 of the Earth’s landmass and play a key role in the health of our planet. They regulate...

Mobile phone data tracks malaria as it moves with humans; Spirals of dust help understand evolution of stars; A new...

Tinnitus is the experience of sound in the absence of any real noise and it’s estimated to affect 1 person in 5 and can...

Climate change is altering the migration patterns of seabirds...

In this week's NewsFLASH, we look at companion black holes, artificial bee brain design and hypo-allergenic cow...

How you perceive taste is a very intricate and complicated relationship...

How does synaesthesia work? What causes it? Is there any agreement on what colour 'A' and are the...

A new diagnostic tests for new-born babies has been developed. In under 50 hours, it can comb a newborn's entire...

How to rejuvenate the flavour of tired chewing gum, and how the food industry enhances taste.