Interviews with Scientists

Global warming may dominate today’s environmental headlines but not so long ago it was acid rain. This emerged after...

Diet in pregnancy affects cancer risk for the women, their daughters, and their granddaughters...

While some of The Naked Scientists were in Aberdeen for the British Science Association’s Science Festival, another...

An abandoned Arctic settlement, called Nunalek, has been uncovered in West Alaska...

Away from the stories of athletes training and stadium building there’s another side to London 2012 that is often...

And finally, our gene of the month is Mothers Against Decapentaplegic - which sounds more like the name of a death...

Researchers have found that older fathers tend to pass on more mutations to their children, which might increase the...

We've already heard how epigenetic marks tell cells which genes to use, creating different types of tissue. But is...

Virtually all the cells in our bodies contain the same DNA. This is the same DNA we were given when we started life as...

Scientists at CERN are pretty sure they've found the Higgs boson, so what happens now?

How can we avoid the temptation of an unhealthy snack at the end of a long day? Julia Allan explains some new...

Can we tailor our diets to keep us fuller for longer, eat less and lose weight? Alexandra Johnstone tells us how...

Children who struggle to learn to read can be helped by a new interactive programme, "Moved By Reading." Art...

Low-level exposure to chemicals that are the byproduct of industrial and household processes could be damaging our...

When we see a reconstruction of a prehistoric creature, perhaps in a book or on TV, the creator has usually made it...

After 16 years of planning, a British team of scientists are planning to drill into a subterranean lake, 3 kilometres...

How can flooded mineshafts beneath our cities be used to heat our homes?

Slowing down time to make your move, rediced rainfall from deforestation, Visualising the potency of drug candidates...

Slowing down time to make your move, rediced rainfall from deforestation, Visualising the potency of drug candidates...

Increasing multiple resistant TB, Methane under Antarctic Ice Sheet, A new kind of solar system, and How cucumber...

Our lives are increasingly moving online, which means that more and more of our personal and financial information is...

Credit and debit cards now almost universally use chip and PIN technology, to enable consumers to make secure purchases...

Smartphone usage has grown in recent years, as has the amount of information we keep on them. A new system has been...

The urban heat island effect sees artificial surfaces in built up areas acting as storage heaters - making cities...