Interviews with Scientists

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...

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...