Interviews with Scientists

Doctors are reporting significant success in treating OCD by using deep brain stimulation, which is carried out by...

How do tiny fish and lobster larvae find their way home?

New insights into protein shape may provide novel treatments for serious diseases of the circulatory system, including...

Scientists solve the structure of a protein pivotal for repairing damaged DNA. Due to various factors such as UV in...

A class of material known as 'multiferroics' respond to both magnetic and electric fields. The latest...

A special type of rust, called 'green rust', could be used to scrub contaminants from the environment to make...

A new form of solar cell that uses plastic instead of silicone may make solar panels a cheap and effective way of...

Angelos explains how zooarchaeologists go about analysing animal bones in order to study the sites from which they...

Dr Hugh Hunt tells us about his work in solving the same problems that Barnes Wallis faced when he designed the famous...

A new study reveals how languages, like genetics, evolved out of Africa...

An important group of diseases are those that occur when a person inherits a defective form of an essential gene....

In this week's Planet Earth, Sue Nelson has been along to find out about a European Space Agency mission called...

For Naked Engineering this week, Dave Ansell’s been finding out how to solve the problem of powering the tiny nanoscale...

Tim Cox explains how Gene therapy may help in the treatment of in-born errors of metabolism where part of a biochemical...

Steve Collins discusses the Materials and Magnetism Beamline and the science made possible here...

Paolo Radaelli discusses the scence behind multiferroic material and there applications in data storage...