A method to prepare important fluorine-containing chemicals directly from the mineral...
Science Articles, Interviews & Questions
Why would a white t-shirt become virtually transparent when it gets wet?
Scientists have produced a sugar sarcophagus to keep viral vaccines viable without refrigeration.
Scientists have discovered a new, much more sensitive way to detect cancers and follow their response to therapy as...
Scientists have discovered that cells use the biochemical equivalent of a chemical dimmer switch to control their...
The same trick used by the resurrection plant can keep vaccines in pristine condition without the need for...
Professor Frank Fish explains how a sculpture of a humpback whale triggered a whole new design for wind turbines...
Meera Senthilingam explores how wind turbines can be designed to withstand the cold temperatures of Antarctica in order...
Pierre Rivard explains how inflatable wind trubines could help us harness the great winds we see at high altitudes...
It's been 10 years since Dr Chris and Dr Kat first appeared on the radio! Listen back to some clips of that first...
I've read that painting rooftops white can help to cool cities. So does ploughing away the snow warm the earth up...
Researchers funded by the US National Institutes of Health and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have discovered...
Researchers in Australia have managed to use cotton thread and sewing needles to stitch together a “lab-on-a-chip” –...
Scientists have developed a new way to detect cancer cells in blood using laser-sensitive magnetic nanoparticles...
High speed elephants have a very strange gait, but do they actually run?
Scientists have discovered how baby sea turtles move so rapidly across sandy beaches...
NASA launches the Solar Dynamics Observatory to monitor the sun in an unprecidented way...
Surprising as it sounds, scientists at the University of Copenhagen have decoded the genome sequence of an ancient...