Interviews with Scientists

One of the most important chemical players in nature is the protein. The structure of a protein gives it specific...

In order to design useful new compounds, we need to know exactly what structure any new chemical will take. Computer...

How do manufacturers make chemicals on seriously large industrial scales? We sent Meera Senthilingam and Dave Ansell...

Breeding seahorses in captivity to supply aquariums aims to help reduce pressure on wild populations.

How do blood thirsty vampire bats home in on the best place to bite and therefore guarantee achieving a trouble-free...

Water sports – surfing, body boarding, kite surfing, etc have all become increasingly popular in recent years, but the...

Over the past year, we’ve met up with lots of marine experts to talk about their work. To delve a little bit deeper...

A major landmark in ocean science was reached in October 2010 with the completion of the world’s first Census of Marine...

We explore how carbon dates can be statistically analysed in order to look at prehistoric England and causewayed...

An exclusive glimpse into the making-of Naked Oceans season one.

How do jet engines actually work? One simple way to think about it is Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow. The engine sucks air...

How should astronomers go about communicating their work? Mark Thompson is President of Norwich Astronomical Society,...

Climatologists and geologists have developed a number of ways to estimate the temperature on Earth going back a very...

What would our solar system look like to extra-solar observers? Dr Chris Stark, from the Carnigie Institute in...

Should we ever want to visit our astronomical neighbours, we will first need to get over a lot of technological,...

How do we spot planets in the glare of their parent star? Ben Oppenheimer is associate curator of astrophysics at the...

Gerd discusses the aims of getting the public in to see Diamond at work...

We meet some Diamond engineers and technicians and discover their role at the Lightsource...

Danny Axford discusses the biological insight made possible by the microfocus macromolecular crystallography beamline...

Simone Weyand discusses her new insight into the workings of antihistamines...

Hugh Hunts explains what needs to be considered when designing a bomb to bounce across water....

How do cuckoos fool their hosts...