Interviews with Scientists

Katy Owen explains the importance of microscopic plankton in our oceans and their role in our enviroment...

Aberystwyth University scientist Jamie Newbold discusses how changes to farming practices can alter the microbes inside...

Surprising as it sounds, the majority of antibiotic drugs actually come from microbes themselves, particularly...

Professor Harry Klee discusses the cocktail of chemicals that constitute a much more flavoursome fruit of a tomato..!

This week the decision was finally made about where the most powerful telescope has ever been conceived will be built...

We explore a future of private space missions, how swimming the atlantic can provide insight into the state of our...

Metal alloys are mixtures of different chemical elements - adding certain elements can make a metal harder, others can...

Once we have a recipe for a new metal, how do we find out if it lives up to its initial promise? We find out how...

Imagine not being able to just pick up a glass and have a drink, and instead, having to rely on others to help with...

The spread of superbugs from big city to small town, new drug target to treat Tinnitus, New insight into lunar...

We explore how sand can be used to predict the outcome of an avalanche...

We find out how a novel alloy makes the leap from academia to aeroplane...

We explore how tephra ash can be analysed to date archaeological sites, clarify the effects of environmental and...

Some unusual neurological findings at post mortem suggest a mechanism which causes the symptom of pain in chronic...

Professor Julia Newton has been looking at muscle cells from patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, to see if a...

Dr. Esther Crawley explains what chronic fatigue syndrome is, who gets it, the genetic component of chronic fatigue...

This week, scientists at Cambridge University have identified a signal that controls the activity of brown fat – that...

A new test to predict the pathology of a virus, ice sheet instability in Antarctica, the rewarding feeling of talking...

Move over Kim Kardashian, because our gene of the month is the curvaceous Callipyge, Greek for “beautiful buttocks”. It...

Finally, keep your hair on, because our gene of the month is the rather wackily-named Lunatic Fringe. First discovered...

If you ask most people what they think of when they hear the words “Sonic Hedgehog”, they’ll probably describe a spiky...

We’ve already heard how genes control the growth of an organism from single fertilised cell. But how do we know when to...