Interviews with Scientists

Can you walk out on the Pacific garbage patch? And what's the problem if fish eat plastic? Miriam Goldstein and...

We meet a denizen of the twilight zone that you can see right through.

Sue Nelson explores the missing pieces of the dwarf elephant puzzle and what these extinct animals can tell us about...

This week has seen NAM2012 - the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting. Over 1000 delegates got...

What was the atmosphere like on the Earth nearly 3 billion years ago? Well that's a pretty tough question to...

How drug-resistant bacteria could be combatted using chemical compounds, pesticides causing declines in bumblebee...

David Hooper explains the presence and chemistry of the noctilucent clouds in our skies at dusk...

Jonathon Morrison explains how current nuclear reactors are kept running despite problems such as material deposition...

Eric Lowen explains how the efficiency of the new PRISM reactors and how these new designs overcome previous reactor...

We have a challenge to supply our growing demand for electricity whilst reducing our carbon emissions. Is nuclear the...

Researchers in the Scripps Translational Science Institute in California have developed a blood test that may be...

A new drug target for baldness, searching for early human settlements from space, a new way to fight altitude sickness...

Ed Farnell discusses how the parasitic Schistosoma worm cleverly coats itself with your blood to hide from your immune...

Geoff Smith explains how some viruses are able to spread faster than they should to cover more ground, and infect more...

Native white-clawed British crayfish are in trouble. Weakened by a parasite, this endangered species is being driven...

Full genome sequencing of bacteria could allow researchers and medics to better treat diseases like MRSA, and better...