Interviews with Scientists

Professor Todd Humphreys explains how it may be possible to intentionally fool your GPS into thinking you're...

Chopo Ma explains the Cosmic Positioning System used to locate our satellites...

A new genetic analysis of nearly 2,000 people from all over the globe suggests that our ancestors interbred with...

Colin Renfrew explains how genetics can be used to learn more about our ancestry...

Helen Donoghue explains how analysing bacteria from ancient fossils can help us learn more about the evolution of...

As well as following the way populations have changed and migrated, we can use modern genetic techniques to really get...

Professor Andy Fabian, President of the Royal Astronomical Society, explains who the RAS are, the important role of...

Professor John Brown explains why 2010 is an important year for astronomy at Glasgow University, and gives a brief...

Cosmic Vision is ESA's way of setting out the future of space missions. Mark McCaughrean explains more...

Astronomers and Cosmologists seek to understand the origins of the universe – but as this was billions of years ago, we...

In 1916, Albert Einstein predicted that Gravitational Waves, these are ripples in the very fabric of space and time,...

Solar physics is a big priority - but what's so important about our closest star? Dr Lucie Green, from UCL's...

Jim wild describes how we can forecast the weather in space and plan for any extreme events that may be coming up...

Professor Andrew Collier Cameron discusses some surprising discoveries from the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP)...

William Bains describes a new way to think about the search for extra terrestrial life using biochemistry...

Researchers in California have shown how a new drug, called iRGD, can help to fight tumours by boosting levels of...

Meera Senthilingam explores the online movement of steampunk with our technology expert Chris Vallance...

Adverse weather causes billions of pounds worth of damage every year. Eurotempest, a spin off from the University...

Moshe Alamaro explains how it may be possible to steer hurricanes away from danger...

Most of us are familiar with the long trails left behind by airplanes as they pass overhead. But those trails or...

Researchers have overturned a 100-year-old misunderstanding about how the arteries that supply the heart with blood...

Leila Luheshi explains how a binding protein could be used to prevent the build up of the toxic proteins that cause...

The human population is estimated to be about 6.8 billion right now, and it’s set to grow to over 9 billion by 2040....

Meera Senthilingam explores how the domestication of African fruits trees is helping meet the nutritional and...