Interviews with Scientists

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?

Nigel Dimmock discusses a new anti-influenza strategy - a virus that protects you from infection...

Henrik Øren discusses a potential new drug to stop Hepatitis C in its tracks...

Joe Grove discusses the sneaky ways the Hepatitis C virus evades our immune system...

Meera Senthilingam investigates how safe the blood we receive in transfusions really is...

Graeme Alexander explains the effects of Hepatitis C on the body adn the current methods of treatment against the virus...

It's often said that someone can move you with the words they use. Now scientists have shown that this really is...

This week in Science History saw on the 28th of November 1660, the first meeting of the Royal Society, the oldest...

We get a technology update and find out why the entire borough of Swindon could soon be going wireless...

We learn how to monitor plants using conveyor belts in one of the world's biggest greenhouses, plus how scientists...

Jan Arthur discusses how her team find new viruses by analysing faecal samples...

We find out about one of the world's few degrees where drinking and making wine are the main things on the agenda...

Tim Sutton is grappling with the problem of too much Boron in Southern Australia...

Bushfires can ruin a wine when smoke chemicals penetrate the grapevine. But now Adelaide-based scientists may have come...

We discover the health benefits of cereals rich in polysaccharides...

We discover how the timing of a grape killing itself, is the secret to a producing a good wine...