Interviews with Scientists

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.

A re-evaluation of Neanderthal remains from the Caucasus Mts in Russia has shown they are most likely to have lived...

Using lasers and over 100,000 hours of computing time, researchers have exposed the previously unknown molecular shape...

Wading into a river and digging until you get to the slime, soil, dirt and other matter at the bottom may not be...

If you’ve been shopping for a fish supper lately you’ve almost certainly been offered both farmed and wild fish. Fish...

Aquaculture isn’t restricted to the oceans – many aquatic organisms can actually be farmed on land. This is...

Fish have developed an extremely efficient way of locomotion, so researchers are trying to emulate fish for novel ways...

How different is the vision of fishes living on kaleidoscopic coral reefs compared to their deep-sea-dwelling cousins?

Underwater robots listen out for whales even in the middle of a raging storm

We ask legendary marine biologist Genie Clark aka 'The Shark Lady' to pick her favourite species

If you live in an old or historical building then you’re also probably aware that there can be downsides too....