Interviews with Scientists

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...

We’re all being asked to lower our carbon footprint and one area where you’d think this would be nearly impossible is...

Every year, the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the BA, hold a festival. They go to a different...

How could Radio help rainforests? Through a community radio station lovingly nicknamed Pygmy FM, indigenous people can...

This week Bob and Susanne tell us why diet foods might actually make kids fat and why the placebo effect works on some...

Out of Body Experiences (OBE's)may be spooky, but they can tell us a lot about how the brain works. Now,...