Interviews with Scientists

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...

Meera explores the RHS Chelsea Flower show to discover how the help our rainforests and entice wildlife into her garden...

This week the J Craig Venter Institute announced the creation to huge fanfare of a brand new synthetic microorganism...

2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity, and as part of that, BioBlitz events will be going on across the...

An iconic animal, the Tasmanian Devil is under threat from a type of cancer that can be transmitted between individuals...

Human Papillomavirus or HPV is the main cause of the majority of cases of cervical cancer. Professor Margaret Stanley...

Cervical screening helps to catch cancers before they become a problem, but what actually happens to a sample after it’...

Researchers have discovered why Tibetans who have a taste for the high life are much better able to tolerate low oxygen...

What do we mean when we talk about Synthetic Biology? What does it involve? Dr Jim Haseloff from Cambridge University...

Meera Senthilingam catches up with members of a team from Cambridge University that took part in the iGEM 2009 project...

One of the main aims that scientists have for synthetic biology is to be able to take what nature has already made and...

Researchers in Toronto and in Cambridge have made a major breakthrough in understanding how DNA works. More...

Meera explored Grand Designs Live at London's Excel centre to find greener ways to fill your home with gadgets...

The Lancet has published a study into the benefits of looking at your genome to help personalise your medicine. Dr....

How does the GPS in your car actually work? And what does the future hold for GPS? Meera went to meet Dr Chaz Dixon and...