Science Articles, Interviews & Questions

Engineers claim to have developed a battery technology for super-quick charging of electric vehicles…

After decades, researchers have discovered how measles erases our immune system’s memory of past infections...

Electrical stimulation may help people overcome freezing episodes in Parkinson's Disease patients...

How do UK universities treat their early-career group leaders?

What's the rate at which new genetic changes emerge in sperms and eggs?

A study on birds confirms that the way in which information is presented is key to effective education...

Flies with the “yellow” gene aren’t very lucky in love, and it's not down to behaviour...

Why tasty treats are more tricky to resist after a sleepless night...

Ditching a raft of genes helped marine mammals to adapt to life afloat...

If you wipe dew of a windshield at below-zero, why does it suddenly freeze solid?

What can we do to fix recycling?

Some are skeptical about whether recycling even works...

Until recently, plastic aluminium laminates couldn't be recycled. But a new technology has changed that...

When you put something in the recycling bin, where does it actually go?

The part of the show where we read out your correspondence....

As droughts get more common thanks to climate change, this spray-on chemical could protect crops...

Online gaming is becoming a hotbed for DDoS attacks - but teens don't always know it's illegal...

If you become a professional footballer, your risk of Alzheimer’s Disease goes up five fold...

It converts carbon dioxide into syngas, and could help with climate change...

EIDD-2018 mimics the genetic code of the flu virus, and might work better than Tamiflu...

What rock concerts can teach us about the way materials can bend and stretch...

Global wildlife trade affects whole groups of species, with up to 3,000 more species predicted to be affected.

How analysing books can help policy making.

Why people’s misperceptions about climate change, vaccinations are so hard to shake...