Interviews with Scientists

This story's about an animal that's already become extinct, the Tasmanian tiger. This is research that'...

What we’re looking at here is how did polar bears evolve to be different from normal bears – brown bears, all kinds of...

When you think of super-models, you may think of skinny beauties strutting up the catwalk. But one of stars on the...

So they were looking at DNA from ancient cow ancestral fossils from Iran, in fact...

And another story that hit the headlines, the USB-sized gene sequencer. And I think people just went nuts for this. ...

Now they’ve sequenced the human genome, they’re trying to move on to sequencing all the bugs in our gut...

Another story that I noticed involving dogs and their diseases is about epilepsy. And actually a quite number of...

This is about dogs and Epstein-Barr virus, which is type of virus that can cause some types of cancer. And it can also...

One of the biggest genetics stories this month came from the world of cancer research. Writing in the New England...

Back in 1973, Theodosius Dobzhansky published an essay titled “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of...

Green Fluorescent Protein, GFP, is an important research tool originally extracted from jellyfish. It's so...

It's not only food that we get from the oceans. Marine species from corals and sea squirts, right down to the...

Terje Laskemoen explains the speedy sperm found in the songbird and the reasons for its evolution...

A number of animals use primitive tools, but how does this behaviour begin? And what can it tell us about how we got...

Dr Henrik Svensen reveals what craters in Africa can tell us and if the cause for mass extinction can be unearthed by...

Cancer cells can develop resistance to radiotherapy, which means large doses have to be given which can damage nearby...

Cancer cells may escape attack by the body's immune system by releasing chemicals to suppress it, but we may be...

Nils Christian Stenseth discusses the dwindling lemming population cycles...

Solar cells waste much of the energy from the Sun because they cannot use it efficiently, but Per-Anders Hansen from...

Espen Knutsen is reassembling the remains of ancient pleiosaurs.

This week, researchers homed in on the areas of the pigeon brain responsible for detecting magnetic fields...

Clare Woulds explains how the existence of life is explored deep down in the Earth's hydrothermal vents...

We ask Emmett Duffy from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, if he was a marine creature, which one would be be...

Christopher Kemp discusses the mysterious substance prized for centuries...