Interviews with Scientists

How does having Alzheimer's disease change the structure of the brain? Not much, actually. According to Peter...

Earworms - the annoying tunes that worm their way into your head, and just wont get out! Meera spoke to Daniel Levitin...

We've heard about the effect of Alzheimer's on memory, but what actually is memory? How does our brain create...

We explored the township of Soweto, to discover what life is like for the poor in Johannesburg.

South Africa is officially the country with the world’s highest prevalence of HIV, with up to 50% of the population...

One of the fantastic opportunities we had in South Africa was to visit the collection of fossils at Witwatersrand...

Now in the news last week was the story around what, essentially, is a very boring star. Now the star is called 55-...

Case works on the Southern African Large Telescope a huge 11m telescope which can see better than the Hubble Space...

We talk to Kevin Fong who is a space physiologist about the problems associated with actually living in space.

Brian won a share of the five hundred thousand dollar prize for his discovery that the universe is expanding as it ages...

Colin sent us a rock he thought was a meteorite, we visit the natural history museum to find out if he is right.

In this week's tech section, Chris Vallance tells us about the DARPA Urban Challenge, and how this could lead to...

This month, we chat to Mark Peplow about the worlds smallest microwave oven, and a microscopic fuel cell.

It seems that it’s no longer impressive just to have been able to climb mount Everest; now the goal is to fly over it...

How long have humans been using fire?

Ben Valsler and Dave Ansell took some of their favourite Kitchen Science experiments to Manchester as part of the...

We sent Meera to UCL’s centre for Stem Cell Research, to find out the basics of stem cell technology.

We spoke to Professor Roger Pedersen, of the Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Cambridge University, about...

We spoke to Professor Ian Wilmut who, in 1996, cloned the first mammal, Dolly the sheep.

For Kitchen Science, Ben found out how to clone at home!

The Diamond Synchrotron creates very high energy electromagnetic radiation (known as synchrotron light) that scientists...

Chris spoke to Dr Ben Allanach about what we find when we break open an atom...