Interviews with Scientists

Australian researchers - Rob Warren and Barry Marshall - won the Nobel Prize for their discovery in the 1980s of the...

Harnessing bacteria often involves growing them in large tanks called fermenters or bioreactors; but how do you make...

How do marine microbes cope with extreme life in the deep sea? And how do scientists study these challenging...

Pioneering exploration of Indonesia's deep sea uses latest social networking tools to link up a virtual global...

Bone eating zombie worms feature as our Critter of the Month

It is a proven fact that if you elevate the amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere this will have the...

Computer scientists at Cambridge University have come up with a way to make mobile phones work more intuitively in...

Although it’s a popular conversation topic – it’s very tricky to predict the English weather. But what about if you...

If you've been on a flight recently, then there's a very high likelihood that you were carried aloft by a jet...

We humans have been moulding metal to our will for at least 3,000 years. In fact, our use of metals mark the beginning...

Earth observation from satellites is an extremely important way of examining everything from glaciers to tree cover in...

What happens at a molecular level as a blacksmith works on a piece of metal? To find out, Meera took metallurgist John...

What is round and measures 1 billionth of a millimetre across? Yes, you guessed it, it’s the electron. Theories have...

Pulsar hunters search for tell tale repeated signals in masses of data - and sometimes they spot something unusual....

Fact Impact: A high-speed run-down of facts about Mars...

UK scientists have made big step forward in the field of organ transplantation. King’s College researcher Robert...

In April 2010, a previously dormant volcano in Iceland released a massive ash cloud that closed most Europe’s air...

Food allergies are relatively common – figures from the US suggest that up to 8% of young children and 3.7% of adults...

Allergic conditions were virtually unheard of before the 19th century, and this has led some people to suggest that...

We explore how filters can be designed to provide a breath of truly clean air...

Making use of the Historical Environment Record, the National Monument Record and the Urban Archaeological Database to...

Xenia explains the uses of ceramic petrology - the study of ceramics using microscopy, chemicals and thin sections.