Interviews with Scientists

The largest placebo controlled study into the effects of microdosing on psychological wellbeing and cognition

A nearly 2000 year old ancient date seed has grown into a plant that's now producing delicious dates

A new study - combining the work of thousands of geneticists - pins down the genes making COVID worse...

What happens in germination? And how specialised germination is wreaking havoc for some farmers...

Thousands of wild and crop seeds kept safe to protect genetic variability

Purifying water with proteins made by seeds

A sensible preventative measure, or a dangerous risk?

Recording gorilla chest beating to find a signal of body size

How accurate are they compared to PCR tests? And is this strategy likely to help prevent transmission?

A new technique has been developed that allows glass to be shaped via injection moulding

Due to the potential risk of rare blood clots, under 30s are to be given the option of a different vaccine

As Bitcoin gets more valuable, mining becomes more profitable - which takes huge amounts of electricity...

How do you make sure everyone involved in a decentralised currency agrees with each other?

Companies like Chainalysis can trace people's money through the supposedly-anonymous Bitcoin ledger...

Bitcoin and other currencies have been both a tool for cybercrime - and a target...

There's a whole world of cryptocurrencies out there - and Ethereum is the second biggest player...

Economist Jon Danielsson questions what these digital tokens are really doing...

Are cryptocurrencies really about the technology? David Gerard doesn't think so...

Multi-million art sales, financial misconduct, Facebook money... and are we in a cryptocurrency bubble?

Bitcoin is the oldest and biggest cryptocurrency. Its underlying technologies come from unexpected places...

How does our sense of touch work?

Architect Alan and social scientist Mary reflect with Chris Smith on the hospitals of the future...

Using design to improve how patients feel while in hospital...

Here are the thoughts of one patient about what hospitals of the future should look like...