Interviews with Scientists

How music can make children more empathetic, the electrical charge of cracked materials, the slow extinction of the...

As if carbon dioxide and methane aren’t enough to worry about, it now seems that we’re managing to make a whole load of...

One of the most fundamental questions about how life began in the first place must be answered here on Earth. We...

We explore some cinematic science when we meet the scientific adviser on Ridley Scott's blockbuster Prometheus...

We've been scanning the skies for evidence of intelligence for over 50 years, to find out how, we're joined...

From seaweed to red sea migrants, we get the low down on invasions in the marine realm.

Lionfish are proving to be a big problem in the Caribbean. We find out what is being done to deal with them.

We meet an unusual floater in our Critter of the Month

We discuss how rainfall can be used to map regions affected by seasonal Malaria to improve drug treatment programmes...

A protein in milk to keep obesity at bay, 'smart' water pumps to improve water availability, a digital...

And finally, our gene of the month is the hollow-sounding Tinman, whimsically named after the character in the Wizard...

This is a story led by Hiroaki Matsunami in the US and published in PLoS ONE about the genetics of why some people like...

There's some research published in PLoS Genetics this month from researchers up Edinburgh led by Lee Smith that...

They've looked at the mummy of a 16th century Korean child and manage to not only extract preserved organ tissue...

The first story that has caught my attention is a double in Cell led by two groups, the first by Evan Eichler and the...

As we heard earlier, some researchers are using mouse models to unravel the biological mysteries underlying...

Down’s Syndrome is a genetic disease caused by inheriting an extra copy of human chromosome 21. As well as leading to a...

We visit the Chelsea Flower Show in London where Microbiologist Rachel Roberts discussed her work looking at ways to...

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...