Interviews with Scientists

Stone tools and animal remains from 12,000 years ago have been found in the Californian channel islands.

New evidence suggests humans used fire as early as 400,000 years ago. This coincides with the date Neanderthals are...

Scientists at Stanford University in California have discovered how certain changes in our DNA have sculpted the...

If you've ever neglected a houseplant, you'll know this problem - when you finally come to water it, the...

We offer a rundown of some of the top price-tags on marine species we like to eat and wear

Mark Baumgartner from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution chooses a very rare critter with a huge appetite.

We’ve heard how drugs like aspirin can be used, but how are they actually made? For this week’s Naked Engineering,...

Every week, an earthquake occurs that's big enough to cause serious damage. Seismologists monitor this activity...

On the 6th March 1899, the Beyer pharmaceutical company officially registered Aspirin as a trademark, following their...

Aspirin was touted originally as treatment for pain; but, 100 years on, we now know it’s much more powerful than that...

Researchers at Rice university have developed a new way to etch structures into stacked piles of graphene, the...

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

Will converting marine life into carbon credits help fend off climate change? Is Blue Carbon the new green?

It’s estimated that 80% of us will suffer from a bad back at some time in our lives, but the condition is hard to treat...

Planet Earth podcast presenter Richard Hollingham has been asking what have the Romans ever done for us? Well, apart...

There are 206 bones in the average adult human, but how do our bones grow and develop and what controls how strong they...

Every year, about 75,000 people suffer a hip fracture in the UK and a majority of those will be down to the condition...

When muscles are injured or weakened, patients are usually referred to a physiotherapist for help, regaining their...

Fact Impact: All you need to know about the Milky Way...

The James Webb Space Telescope, planned for launch in 2014, will be NASA's scientific successor to Hubble. With a...

NASA describes Kepler as their first mission capable of finding Earth-size planets around other stars – and it’s doing...

When someone loses a limb, although it's possible to replace the missing part with a prosthesis, making it move is...

Scientists are keeping a close eye on the West Antarctic ice sheet because if it’s melts, we’re in big trouble from the...

How do we study the atmosphere? We have a vast array of tools and chemical tricks that we can rely on, but the...