Interviews with Scientists

Can we sequester enough carbon to avoid cutting emissions?

Trapping tiny particles of organic matter to prevent greenhouse gas release

From kelp forests to seaweed-based 'plastic' packaging

How can farms be optimised to sequester carbon, without sacrificing productivity?

What is peat, and how can we optimise land use to protect it?

And can we sequester carbon using nature-based solutions?

It's the 8th month of the year, so we quiz our expert panel with questions fit for August

Why is it hard to develop treatments, and what clinical trials need to be performed?

Why is it so difficult to definitively diagnose long COVID?

Scientists are looking for the mechanism behind the condition...

Who is most at risk, and what are the most common symptoms?

Unravelling why younger age groups appear to be sluggish when signing up for their vaccine

A well-known flower is actually a carnivorous plant, hidden in plain sight...

Newspapers have described the IPCC report as a wake up call; but perhaps we already knew the facts...

By optimising their route-based mental maps as they go, black howler monkeys navigate just like us

We thought the moon was magnetic. Now we know it's not. So why are some moon rocks magnetic?

The identity of Nessie is an ongoing mystery...can eDNA solve it?

If we can get whole genomes without even seeing the animal, is there anything eDNA can't do?

Scientists can now piece together whole genomes from eDNA, opening up a realm of possibilities...

We sampled the River Great Ouse for eDNA - what animals did it uncover?

What if you could see which animals had been in an area just by testing the air?

We looked for 'invisible' animals were in the River Great Ouse by taking an eDNA sample

We talk to the researcher who established the field of eDNA about the moment he realised its potential

Environmental DNA - what exactly is it?