Interviews with Scientists

The mouth is infested with microbes, so how many bugs do we swap with a kiss?

Your own cells are outnumbered by the bacteria living in and on you. Meet your microbiome!

The timing of a race during the day can seriously impact sporting performance, depending on whether you're an...

Punishments like prison don't deter psychopaths from re-offending, and new research reveals this is down to the...

Chronic stress in mothers can harm the ability to transfer nutrients to a foetus, resulting in lower birthweight babies...

Chicks, just like humans, count from left to right, which has big implications in understanding why it is we do this.

A new planetary system has been discovered and its enormous age makes ET's existence much more likely...

At the moment, plastics are produced industrially using oil as a raw material. But, in future, it might, quite...

We follow a batch of rubbish on its recycling journey...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a huge floating mass of plastic aggregated by ocean currents and caused by us.

What is a plastic, and how are plastics made? Physicist Athene Donald makes some nylon and demonstrates thermoplastics...

2015 marks the 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill's death, and the Science Museum in London has launched a new...

A drug that protects against radiation exposure, and might cut side-effects for radiotherapy patients, has worked...

Pet dogs living with humans have infected African lions with distemper virus, while people are putting pumas off their...

Scientists have been using X-rays to examine magnetism in meteorites dating from the dawn of the solar system...

Roman scrolls burned and buried two thousand years ago when Mount Vesuvius erupted are being read successfully by...

The explosive incident that had me laid up on a stretcher, with a scrubbed up attending doctor, driving back to the...

Braving the congested roads of Kolkata with an anesthetist, who took Hannah to one of his favourite spots in the city...

After neurological tests and psychiatric assesments, Babu's results are revealed and his treatment advised...

How does mental health stigma in India compare to the UK? And do the class and caste systems here affect treatments?

Getting to grips with Babu's medical mystery by analysing his footprints....

The story of an ambitious fruit stall boy who travelled the world, worked in brain surgery and then came home to India...

A grand opening of the 150 bed Institute of Neurosciences, Kolkata.

12 years after it went missing on Mars, the Beagle 2 probe has been found unharmed...