Interviews with Scientists

What has the Sun meant to us over milennia?

Crime goes down when everyone's locked up

There's mercury in glacial meltwater. Is it dangerous?

What's the state of COVID today?

How do all the little bugs in the gut work to help us?

A new study shows that trained dogs are highly accurate at smelling COVID

Combining the super sticky properties of mussels and barnacles has produced a powerful underwater glue

Max Brooks is a disaster preparedness expert - who is also the author of zombie cult classic World War Z...

Deep inside the old power station, monitors have been picking up increasing signs of life...

A new book argues that our minds have their own version of an immune system - one that weeds out bad ideas...

Matt Hancock has blamed COVID hotspots on low vaccine uptake. Is he right?

Grant McIntyre spent 128 days in hospital suffering from COVID-19. He tells us about his recovery...

Bob Ballard discovered the Titanic in 1985 - and today is using 'telepresence' to visit the ocean's...

UFO sightings by US Navy personnel have sparked a wave of interest - ahead of an upcoming Pentagon release...

COVID-19 patients need huge quantities of oxygen to survive. But many countries are running out...

How does your eye work?

How human activities can cause peaks and troughs in malaria cases

How elephants evolved large bodies without increasing cancer risk

Using sensitive force detectors to unpick the physical mechanism of a hummingbird's hum

Studying the social dynamics of gorillas who lose their mothers while at a young age

Even in the best case scenario, two Ethiopian birds species will suffer extreme habitat loss

A report from charity Greenpeace has found that much of the UK's plastic waste gets exported and dumped...

By adding the right chemical messages at the right time, scientists have made mini hearts from stem cells

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