Interviews with Scientists

The Naked Scientists Live Show - Crisp Packet Fireworks, played to sold out houses in Grahamstown and Cape Town. Meera...

Fossils of the Coeacanth fish over 70 million years old are well known, but it was not until 1938 that a living...

The black Rhinocerous is critically endangered, but a research project at Addo National Elephant Reserve hopes to both...

Childhood vaccination has seen tuberculosis all but wiped out in the UK, with cases few and far between. Not so in...

This week in science history, in 1981, saw the issuing of a patent to for a genetically modified Pseudomonas bacterium...

Much of the Naked Scientists team is down in South Africa this week. We had a chance to catch up with Meera to find out...

Richard Barnett takes us on a tour of some of the places, characters and events of medical London.

Vivian Nutton explains how medical discoveries and investigations were conducted over 1,800 years ago in the Classical...

Chris Howe explains how methods used to analyse mutations in DNA across generations can be applied to ancient...

Tilli Tansey takes us through the process of making medical history from the last century; including the breakthroughs...

Opthalmologist, Peter Watson, has taken a fresh look at portraits of Galileo which point to a swelling around his eye...

This Week in Science History saw, in 1993, the discovery by a team in America of the single gene involved in Huntington...

The European Space Agency has launched the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer, or GOCE for short...

What's involved in computer research and can we make computers genuinely intelligent?

How the guys at Second Life build their virtual environment and why bots with artifical intelligence might be...

Writer of the DOS game Theme Park, Demis applies his programming techniques to understanding the mechanics of the human...

This week in 1853 saw the death of Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist and father of the Doppler effect - one of the...

Post Prandial simply means "after dinner" - as part of the Cambridge Science Festival, the Whipple Museum of...

A new surface material could heal it's own scratches simply by being left in the sun! Professor Marek Urban...

The science of what we eat featured highly in the Biology Zone at the Cambridge Science Festival. Meera followed her...

You've heard the saying "lies, damned lies and statistics", now Ben Goldacre joins us to talk about how...

Diana O'Carroll meets Dr Chris Cox to find out how a mobile phone compresses data, and why we could soon be...

You may take your telephone for granted, but it all started this week in 1876...

Is sword swallowing an ancient art, or just a magic trick? Dan Meyer, president of the Sword Swallowers Federation...