Interviews with Scientists

Enzymes are the "amazing chemical machines" that make reactions happen billions of times faster than they...

The history of Trinity and the Wren Library

Astronomer Royal Professor Lord Martin Rees tells us about Earth, the Universe and Everything - from the Big Bang to...

St John's College and the Bridge of Sighs

An animatronic tongue created by scientists at the University of Sheffield could help us understand how speech is...

Scientists have been tying electronic tags to jellyfish, in order to study turtles! We spoke to Jon Houghton from Queen...

Dr Harren Jhoti founded Astex Therapeutics in 1999. We chatted to him to find out what happens in the process of...

Melanie McCullagh from Biotica tells us how they are fighting diseases using chemicals found in bacteria.

Could an Anaconda be the best way to extract power from waves? Possibly not the snake itself, but it's namesake...

We’ve seen the news stories in previous Olympic tournaments where athletes have been caught using performance enhancing...

How are sport officials cracking down on athletes using the wide range of drugs available to boost their performance,...

Another method often used by athletes to reach their peak performance is to use the best equipment or clothing on the...

What is jet-lag, and how can we reset the body clock to avoid it?

We know our body clocks control when we need to eat, sleep and perform other important functions. But what about...

The evolution of the Peppered Moth is a textbook example of adaptation in the face of changing environmental conditions...

Evolving organisms on a lab bench allows a perfect view of how they change over time - but sometimes they can surprise...

In Soay Sheep, having the biggest horns means you're more likely to breed - but it also means you're less...

Charles Darwin's ideas on evolution were presented to the Linnean society on the 1st of July, 1858. 150 years on...

Do you ever eat at your desk at work? It may worry you that your computer keyboard is a hotbed of bacteria, but even...

Meera met our regular tech correspondent, Chris Vallance, to discover hyper-local news – the newest online development...

The Methuselah tree is a record breaker - it grew from the oldest seed ever to be germinated. Sarah Sallon explains...

Marie Edmonds studies the gasses being released from volcanoes without having to do the dangerous bit of actually...

Normally you think of magma as being a runny liquid, but it seems to fracture like a solid, Meera finds out more.

Although you think of most eruptions being hot and fiery, but a mud volcano is entirely different. It is cold but it...