Interviews with Scientists

Antibiotics and vaccines save lives, but to do so, they usually need to be kept cold and this could be a bitter pill to...

How proteins could help clear away Huntington's disease...

At the University of Reading, Dr Tiffany Taylor and her colleagues are busy manipulating bacteria and putting them...

Our gene of the month is Ken and Barbie - yes, named after the dolls. Like their plastic childhood counterparts, male...

The final story that we’ve got is a really nice paper published in Science. This is from Jennifer Doudna at the...

This is from Marco Bortolato at the University of Southern California and this is looking at the genetics of rage.

This is a really interesting study looking at the evolution of music and this was published in the PNAS and it was led...

We’ve already heard about the scientists working on the frontiers of DNA, but others are taking things further, hacking...

Every biology student is familiar with DNA - the ladder-like blueprint of life built on a backbone of the sugar...

Super bainite's strength means it might make an excellent armour - but punching holes in it might make it even...

What are the environmental dangers of nanoparticles? They're a fraction the size of a human hair, so could they...

Alan Begg discusses how new materials are changing the field of ball bearings...

We discover a new variety of steel that's super strong...

A unique and explosive demonstration has given people an opportunity to watch a supersonic high-explosive detonation...

Have we really founds the Higgs Boson? If so, how certain are we and what could this mean for physics and our future..?

One of the things we have to think about when we gather a large number of people into a small space, such as the...

Every large building has an evacuation procedure. Most offices and schools have regular fire drills but this isn’t an...

It’s not only the athletes taking part in London 2012 who are feeling under pressure at the moment. What about their...

On a farm in Berkshire, not far from Reading, you’ll find a rather unusual looking campsite. Here special "tents...

How can mathematical modeling make better buildings? Meera Senthilingham visited the newly refurbished Kings Cross...

We discover a diagnostics development unit resembling that of a star-trek sick bay to monitor many aspects of your body...