Science Articles, Interviews & Questions

How can space technology help us in our beds?

How might genetics be important for treating obesity?

Can you boost a solar panel with a cup of coffee?

Using stem cells to heal wounds

How come you can't see faint stars when you look directly at them?

What is One Health?

How do you treat all the different zoo animals?

A system to produce a hydrogel around grafted cells can revolutionise wound repair...

Signs that multipartite viruses independently replicate different viral components in different cells

A new study is probing the reproducibility of science at the level of the whole country...

Blood samples can be used to determine gestational age...

Evidence that government efforts to increase vaccine uptake do affect disease rates...

How does the brain map a missing hand?

Human beards contain more bacteria, and potentially more harmful bacteria, than dog fur, a study has shown...

Matching more patients to treatments without any additional testing.

Could a cancer vaccine, currently in dogs, make its way into humans?

Hear about the experiment that rocked the world of genetics

Beth Biller from Edinburgh's Institute of Astronomy brought something out of this world to the show

Users of the earliest mobile phones had to go to some bizarre places to make a call...

It's a race against the clock as our panel whizz through questions from the audience.

Scientists can use good bugs to fights off bad bugs

Imagine a world without anaesthetics... No thanks!

Microbiologist Luke McNally brought a potent potion to the Edinburgh Science Festival...

The martian myth that caused a lot of confusion...