Interviews with Scientists

We spoke to Cristina Lazzeroni, of Birmingham University, about her work using particle accelerators to track down...

When you're buying training shoes, do you really get what you pay for? Professor Rami Abboud doesn't think...

Machinima - Machine Cinema where characters from computer games perform as actors in home made movies...

Birds do it, bees do it, but now Irene Terry, from the University of Utah, has found that primitive plants indulge in...

While many people enjoy a beer, some prefer a shot of the hard stuff. Ben set out to find out about the science of...

Now, there must be thousands of beers available worldwide and of course, beer sales are very big business. But how do...

Beer is one of the world’s oldest alcoholic beverages, dating back over seven thousand years and it’s still one of the...

The chemistry of carbon dioxide could give us better beers, by supplying brewers with exactly the compounds they need,...

As much as we enjoy the odd beer it’s always best to enjoy it in moderation because drinking alcohol does have its...

Continued from part one, where we set up the distillation equipment, Ben returns from the pub to find the results...

Kat Arney reports in with the latest news from the National Cancer Research Institute conference in Birmingham, UK.

Non-stick pans are great, they make it so much easier to clean cooked on scrambled egg! But the Thin Films and...

Now, if you listen carefully you will notice that we, in the Naked Scientists are surrounded by paper. We usually try...

Biocomposites, materials similar to plastics but made from biological material, could be the ideal replacement for...

Dr Ruth Cameron and Dr Serena Best from the Centre for Medical material at the University of Cambridge spoke to Chris...

Non-stick pans are great, they make it so much easier to clean cooked on scrambled egg! But the Thin Films and...

Once a judge on Robot Wars, Professor Noel Sharkey told us about the part robots have to play in real wars...

What do we need robots for in genetics? Just what difference do they make? We sent Meera to the Wellcome Trust Sanger...

The Semantic Robot Vision Challenge was set up to find robots which could locate an object in real space, after only...

Professor Nigel Shadbolt is the President of the British Computer Society - he gave a talk at the BA festival of...

We travel back in time to find out how the 17th Century people of York coped with the plague...

Being addicted to things is usually bad news but now there's evidence that getting hooked on chocolate might not...

Meera went out to find the best bits of the festival, and wound up in crowd control!

Breastfeeding is the best was to nurture an infant, but what if you're a smoker? We're always told that...