Interviews with Scientists

Deep water corals, just like their relatives on the reefs, are an indication of a healthy ecosystem - but they also act...

Human activities affect the marine environment in different ways, and Kimberly Selkoe and colleagues at the University...

Chris talks to Karen Kidd from the University of New Brunswick in Canada about a study that investigated the...

David Karl from the University of Hawaii talks to Meera about the problems we face as climate change threatens ocean...

Kat dives into the possibility that ponds could help us fight the greenhouse effect, with Professor John Downing and...

A new penguin tracking system can recognise an individual penguin from afar...

Superheroes of Science is an experimental concept album, where each track is based on the life and work of a different...

It's easy to dismiss bigfoot hunters as crackpots, inhabiting the 'lunatic fringe' of science - but,...

What is imagination, and what's it for? We find out how imagination lets us learn from mistakes we've never...

Carl Djerassi was one of the team behind the contraceptive pill developed in 1951, but now, he's critically...

Age-related Macular Degeneration, or AMD, remains the most common cause of blindness in the UK, with little hope for...

People have long suspected that drinking alcohol makes people seem more attractive, but now, scientists at Bristol...

Planets come in many shapes and sizes, but how do they form? Chris met Micheal Meyer at the AAAS conference in Boston...

The ExoMars rover will be heading off to explore new territory, but will the future of Mars missions be manned or...

The James Webb Space Telescope will be fired into deep space, where it will cool to close to absolute zero in order to...

Dr Carol Haswell gives Meera Senthilingam a lesson in planet spotting, using techniques known as Winks, Wobbles and...

It takes an astronomical effort to feed all of the Olympic athletes, so how do they manage? Madeleine Genner spoke to...

A bit of history about Queens' college

Our first passenger, Beverley Glover from Queens' College talks about the hot world of flowers.

The history of King's College

Carbon sequestration may be our best bet to offset the tonnes of carbon we pump into the atmosphere each year....

The history of Clare College

Hallucinations and delusions resulting from schizophrenia are scientifically fascinating, but poorly understood and...

Trinity Hall's history