Interviews with Scientists

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

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...