Interviews with Scientists

How do hormones, like oestrogen, affect aqatic ecosystems? Professor Karen Kidd explains more...

Martin Wagner explains how his team have been looking into the release of oestrogen-like chemicals from in our mineral...

Meera Senthilingam gets her hands wet and dirty this week to see how the river Cam is kept clean...

Researchers at Cambridge’s Babraham Institute have identified a factor that helps to stop nerves from degenerating....

Just what is Augmented Reality? Dr Tom Drummond, from Cambridge University's Machine Intelligence Laboratory,...

Virtual Reality is a computer simulated version of the real world. Meera Senthilingam has been exploring the use of...

Augmented reality headsets may find a perfect home miles above the surface of Earth, helping astronauts to repair and...

Graham McShane explains what happens when you blow things up, both on land and under water...

Bill Proud explains how the shockwaves created by explosions affect other materials, including human tissue...

Meera Senthilingam explores how munitions are designed and tested to ensure they only detonate when they're...

Michael Spagat discusses how insurgent events can be modelled to deal with future attacks...

We discover the geology behind the recent devastating earthquake in Haiti...

Meera Senthilingam becomes Sherlock Holmes to investigate the uses of Artificial Intelligence in the world of online...

Karen steel discusses the genetic mutations and changes that can impair our hearing...

"The train standing at platform mgph is the phuy-hfgjy to mmughpyhmm..." We meet a sound simulation system...

A deaf person's brain uses many of the same systems and pathways to understand sign language as a hearing person...

Bob Carlyon explores the illusory side of our hearing...

Ian McKay discusses the differences between the bone in our limbs and our skull...

For the final show on 2009, and the decade, the team look back on some of the year's "Naked-Scientific"...

For hundreds of years composers have been creating beautiful and complex pieces of music, written to be sung by many...

Dr John Brackenbury gets out his scalpel to reveal what the inner anatomical workings of a cooked chicken...

Where do new pandemic strains of influenza come from? Canberra-based virologist Adrian Gibbs wonders whether swine flu...

James Wood addresses the concerns of tamiflu resistance in our population and reveals if we really should be worrying...

How are 'flu vaccines prepared, how long does it take and how is the technology evolving?