Interviews with Scientists

Hand-held environmental monitors would allow people to track their own exposure to pollutants - Professor Rod Jones has...

We sent Meera out and about in Cambridge to find out how to monitor the atmosphere on the move...

What happens on the sea shore can impact on the atmosphere across the country, as Stephen Ashworth explained to Chris...

This week in science history saw, in 1990, the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the largest and most advanced...

On the 19th April 1943, Dr Albert Hoffman tested a substance he had derived from Ergot, and discovered it's strong...

This month's technology update looks at 'home-brew' technology and a step towards interactive, hands...

This week in science history saw, in 1923, purified extracts of the hormone insulin being made widely available for the...

On the 7th of April 2001, the Mars Odyssey spacecraft was launched to orbit and survey Mars. It has supplied vital...

Meera took the opportunity to visit Shamwari Game Reserve, to see the animals there and discover the changing role of...

The Born Free Foundation rescues abused animals, and allows them to live out the rest of their lives in natural...

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?