Researchers have used stem cells to make neural implants more refined and with less scar...
Interviews with Scientists
Interviews about medicine, science, technology and engineering with scientists and researchers internationally...
31 October 2010
Dr Andrew Howard explains how their observations suggest that up to one in five stars like our Sun may have Earth-like...
31 October 2010
Dr Suzy Lishman joined us this week to introduce National Pathology Week 2010, and to answer your questions on...
31 October 2010
Predicting how the Earth’s climate is likely to change is one of the toughest challenges facing science, one that as we...
24 October 2010
Astronomers have confirmed the sighting of the most distant galaxy ever recorded. It's light was emitted when the...
24 October 2010
The Earth is under constant bombardment by a 1 million mile per hour maelstrom of charged particles that continuously...
24 October 2010
This year, Cambridge University Engineering students had the chance to re-live their childhood, and play with Lego in...
24 October 2010
HIV is the agent that causes AIDS and is responsible for probably the worst pandemic that human kind has ever...
24 October 2010
When HIV was first discovered about 30 years ago, there was significant optimism that we’d soon have a vaccine with...
17 October 2010
This week, the winner of the Rolls-Royce Annual Science Prize was announced during a special ceremony held at the...
17 October 2010
Walk along any beach almost anywhere in the world and you'll find plastics washed up on the shore. From plastic...
17 October 2010
When most people hear the word ‘turbulence’ they immediately think of being thrown around inside an airplane and...
17 October 2010
Turbulence occurs in fluids and one way we often transport fluids around is in pipes. Tobias Schneider from Harvard...
17 October 2010
Meera and Dave explore how the principles of convection can be manipulated to cool down, and warm up, our buildings...
14 October 2010
The Census is also a vital tool to help raise ocean awareness and inform policy makers to help protect the oceans.
13 October 2010
The big question raised by the Census of Marine Life is, "What next?"
13 October 2010
The Census isn't all about science. Artists and Musicians also joined in to share their love of the underwater...
13 October 2010
Four Census scientists at the London conference share their thoughts on their personal highlights from a decade of...
10 October 2010
This week saw the first report of the Census of Marine Life. This has been a worldwide project spanning in the last 10...