Interviews with Scientists

Interviews about medicine, science, technology and engineering with scientists and researchers internationally...

09 January 2011

Many of us have a certain piece of music that causes chills to run up our spines - music so good, it elicits a genuine...

09 January 2011

Scientists at Bangor University in North Wales have found that different species of deadly viper snakes, tailor their...

09 January 2011

For thousands of years, people have been studying and documenting human anatomy. In these days, we do it to turn out...

09 January 2011

A new film by New Zealand-based physician, Paul Trotman about what happens to a person's body when they donate it...

09 January 2011

Amputees can struggle with the inflexibility of artificial limbs. At Blatchford Prosthetics, they have engineered a new...

19 December 2010

Peter Kristensen and his team took on the myth that you can get drunk through your feet and reveal their findings...

19 December 2010

Dr David Ferguson explains the appeal of the Afar Depression...

19 December 2010

Darcy O'Neil explores the chemistry behind being shaken, not stirred....

19 December 2010

Helen Scales brings your three of her twelve Marine Critters of Christmas...

19 December 2010

We explore the importance of understanding ancient and aboriginal astronomy...

19 December 2010

We visit the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, and discover a collection of Mars Globes and the story they tell...

19 December 2010

All you need to know about the Hubble Space Telescope...

13 December 2010

Stop light loose jaws bright red glow lets them see more that the average deep sea fish.

12 December 2010

Alzheimer's disease is a common cause of cognitive decline among elderly people. An estimated one in every five...

12 December 2010

In this week’s episode of Planet Earth we’re looking at one of Britain's best loved mammals, the elusive red...

12 December 2010

Dave and Meera visited the Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics at Cambridge University to find out how...

12 December 2010

Physicists might use sticky tape to extract and test graphene, but that's not much use when it comes to making...

12 December 2010

Graphene is a very versatile material which we should soon see turning up in a range of applications. Dave spoke to...

12 December 2010

Siphonophores or string jellies are another group of little known but beautiful deep sea critters.

12 December 2010

Should turkey fish - also known as lion fish - be on the Christmas menu?

12 December 2010

Does the mimic octopus have a split personality or does it just like dressing up?

12 December 2010

Perfect miniature Christmas trees round off our choice of festive critters.

11 December 2010

Chimaeras are little known relatives of sharks that get up to some odd things in the deep sea.

11 December 2010

Sea snails that have lost their shells and flap their wings through open ocean get our seasonal critter fest started.