Interviews with Scientists

Blue Ocean Institute president, Carl Safina, chooses our first critter of the month.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill added to the long list of problems that already threaten the Louisiana wetlands....

In 1996 the Sea Empress tanker ran aground spilling oil onto 120 miles of Welsh coastline. Helen visits West Angle Bay...

Oil spills not only cause problems for the shores they wash up on but also impact open ocean ecosystems. Amy Hirons...

Blue Ocean Institute president, Carl Safina, chooses our first critter of the month.

Researchers in America have used a very powerful x-ray laser to strip away the electrons from an atom of neon. But...

Believe it or not - drilling into a volcano can be a great way to understand the processes going on underfoot. The...

The key to understanding the behaviour of a volcano must lie, partly at least, in understanding the plumbing system...

Gillian Foulger expalins how volcanoes form, and how certain types of volcano may not form in the way most geologists...

Also in the news this week, researchers at Yale University in America have come one step closer to building a...

As well as helping to keep you in touch with your friends and family, social networking sites like Facebook are...

A new type of material, one that gets thicker rather than thinner when you stretch it, is being developed by EPSRC...

With hydrogen tipped as the green fuel of the future, safer, more efficient methods of storage need to be found to make...

We all know what happens to water when it freezes - it becomes ice. But it does some weird stuff as well, and there are...

Lithium ion batteries are an essential part of most of our everyday lives. For each different job, you're looking...

This week saw a historic moment in football, the kick-off of the First World Cup ever to be held in an African nation...

As well as blanket football coverage, it’s been very hard to miss news about the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico....

This week, we are celebrating 50 years of the laser and to fill us in on the background of the laser and some of the...

The field of metrology, or measurement, is something that requires a great deal of accuracy. Meera Senthilingam has...

One of the many new applications of lasers is in the building of tiny, tiny machines. When handling tiny objects, you...

It’s an incredibly complicated world inside an ant colony, with different types of ant doing lots of different jobs....

Increasingly, people are keeping bees in crowded urban environments - Meera Senthilingam caught up with Alison Benjamin...

We talk to James Nieh about the warning signals used by bees to stop their colonies from entering harmful areas...

Researchers in Seattle have found that the spiral shape of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is key to its ability to...