Science Articles, Interviews & Questions

28 February 2010

Why would a white t-shirt become virtually transparent when it gets wet?

21 February 2010

Scientists have produced a sugar sarcophagus to keep viral vaccines viable without refrigeration.

21 February 2010

Scientists have discovered a new, much more sensitive way to detect cancers and follow their response to therapy as...

21 February 2010

Scientists have discovered that cells use the biochemical equivalent of a chemical dimmer switch to control their...

21 February 2010

The same trick used by the resurrection plant can keep vaccines in pristine condition without the need for...

21 February 2010

Professor Frank Fish explains how a sculpture of a humpback whale triggered a whole new design for wind turbines...

21 February 2010

Meera Senthilingam explores how wind turbines can be designed to withstand the cold temperatures of Antarctica in order...

21 February 2010

Pierre Rivard explains how inflatable wind trubines could help us harness the great winds we see at high altitudes...

21 February 2010

It's been 10 years since Dr Chris and Dr Kat first appeared on the radio! Listen back to some clips of that first...

21 February 2010

I've read that painting rooftops white can help to cool cities. So does ploughing away the snow warm the earth up...

21 February 2010

Researchers funded by the US National Institutes of Health and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have discovered...

21 February 2010

Researchers in Australia have managed to use cotton thread and sewing needles to stitch together a “lab-on-a-chip” –...

14 February 2010

Scientists have developed a new way to detect cancer cells in blood using laser-sensitive magnetic nanoparticles...

14 February 2010

High speed elephants have a very strange gait, but do they actually run?

14 February 2010

Scientists have discovered how baby sea turtles move so rapidly across sandy beaches...

14 February 2010

NASA launches the Solar Dynamics Observatory to monitor the sun in an unprecidented way...

14 February 2010

Surprising as it sounds, scientists at the University of Copenhagen have decoded the genome sequence of an ancient...