Interviews with Scientists

Interviews about medicine, science, technology and engineering with scientists and researchers internationally...

13 September 2012

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

09 September 2012

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

09 September 2012

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

09 September 2012

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

09 September 2012

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

09 September 2012

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

09 September 2012

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

09 September 2012

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

09 September 2012

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

09 September 2012

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

09 September 2012

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

09 September 2012

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

09 September 2012

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

07 September 2012

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

07 September 2012

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

02 September 2012

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

02 September 2012

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

02 September 2012

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

02 September 2012

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

02 September 2012

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

02 September 2012

Is it possible to be ethical yet hack into a company's website and online data? Apparently it can be, when the...

21 August 2012

Aman Dhir explains how his team are taking to the road to help people see the value of hydrogen transportation in their...

21 August 2012

Angela Murray explains how bacteria are being used to make catalysts for hydrogen fuel cells...

21 August 2012

Lynne Macaskie describes how Bacteria, Chemistry, Metals and Bio-wastes can all be combined to maximise the production...