Science Articles, Interviews & Questions

07 February 2010

Martin Wagner explains how his team have been looking into the release of oestrogen-like chemicals from in our mineral...

07 February 2010

Meera Senthilingam gets her hands wet and dirty this week to see how the river Cam is kept clean...

07 February 2010

Scientists have discovered the mechanism that starts sperm swimming once they exit the male...

07 February 2010

Have the seasons ever shifted? Assuming we could follow our own calendar back millions of years, would northern...

02 February 2010

Researchers at Cambridge’s Babraham Institute have identified a factor that helps to stop nerves from degenerating....

31 January 2010

Just what is Augmented Reality? Dr Tom Drummond, from Cambridge University's Machine Intelligence Laboratory,...

31 January 2010

Virtual Reality is a computer simulated version of the real world. Meera Senthilingam has been exploring the use of...

31 January 2010

Augmented reality headsets may find a perfect home miles above the surface of Earth, helping astronauts to repair and...

31 January 2010

When does it make sense to hang washing out on the line? Will it still dry even in low temperatures?

31 January 2010

Researchers in the states may have found a way to detect potential prostate tumours using Magnetic resonance...