Interviews with Scientists

There's a link between high social media consumption and poor mental health in teens. What's being done?

The team have thought up some spooky science questions for you to sink your fake vampire teeth into...

Producer-director and author Chris Riley has been comparing landing sites on Mars to Earth. Can you help?

The Bank of England fear cryptocurrency could cause a financial crash; where has the fear come from?

When high-risk research is being considered, who is responsible for giving it the go-ahead?

We look at the incidents when dangerous diseases have escaped the lab into the wide world...

Labs fall into four categories depending on how dangerous the disease being studied is.

What can we learn from making diseases more dangerous in the lab?

Would you fund research that could prevent a pandemic, but may accidentally cause one in the process?

Concern for crabs who interrupt their normal behaviour in response to underwater electromagnetic fields...

Severe illness in unvaccinated pregnant women with COVID is causing alarm...

Injecting photosynthetic algae cells to keep organs alive outside the body

Some people are reporting changes to their period after receiving a COVID vaccine, what could be going on?

Evidence that Europeans brought new diseases to the Americas...

Rats rescue other rats when specific brain areas become active...

Monkeys fed a Western diet for 15 months behaved badly and showed signs of persistent inflammation...

Adverse life events are reflected in a temporary change to hair pigmentation, a new study reveals...

Signs that swabs from cell phones are almost as sensitive as testing the owner for Covid-19...

A prize for a powerful technique allowing chemists to selectively create the molecules they need

Shooting pellets of dry ice to remove sludgy leaves from train tracks

Incredibly abundant, yet extremely difficult to detect, scientists must go to great lengths to catch neutrinos

Complex systems and climate change take the award this year...

Scientists at Fermilab may have uncovered something in muons beyond our understanding

Bacteria in the gut producing testosterone-like chemicals can prevent prostate cancer treatment from working