Researchers have used stem cells to make neural implants more refined and with less scar...
Interviews with Scientists
Interviews about medicine, science, technology and engineering with scientists and researchers internationally...
Meera finds out how to keep your skin looking young and healthy...
You may be surprised to hear that some very simple lifestyle changes can extend your life by 14 years! We find out how...
Meera finds out how to keep your skin looking young and healthy...
Some bacteria sense an immune response, and then become hyper-virulent. This means that treatment with antibiotics...
Clostridium difficile bacteria account for many cases of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea, and currently causes 7000...
Whether or not bacteria stick around in your local hospital isn’t always down to local conditions or cleaning....
The bacterium MRSA has been the big villain of hospital acquired infections – it’s resistant to common antibacterial...
A new proposal for an absolutely massive solar power tower in Namibia forces the issue of electricity in Africa -...
In some cases, the human heart can be 'pre-conditioned', and as such can withstand the damage of a heart...
This year's BA festival was held in Liverpool - the European City of Culture. Lord Robert Winston explains why a...
LHC可能最大的粒子加速器the world but how does it work? We spoke to Ben Allanach from the...
What does it take to create something as big as the LHC? Guy Crockford is an engineer in the control room of CERN and...
The beams created by the LHC will be used by scientists from all over the world in their research. Tara Shears from the...
Trawl fishing involved hauling a net behind a boat, and is extremely good for catching large numbers of fish. However...
Deep water corals, just like their relatives on the reefs, are an indication of a healthy ecosystem - but they also act...
Human activities affect the marine environment in different ways, and Kimberly Selkoe and colleagues at the University...
Chris talks to Karen Kidd from the University of New Brunswick in Canada about a study that investigated the...
David Karl from the University of Hawaii talks to Meera about the problems we face as climate change threatens ocean...
Kat dives into the possibility that ponds could help us fight the greenhouse effect, with Professor John Downing and...
A new penguin tracking system can recognise an individual penguin from afar...
Superheroes of Science is an experimental concept album, where each track is based on the life and work of a different...
It's easy to dismiss bigfoot hunters as crackpots, inhabiting the 'lunatic fringe' of science - but,...
What is imagination, and what's it for? We find out how imagination lets us learn from mistakes we've never...
Carl Djerassi was one of the team behind the contraceptive pill developed in 1951, but now, he's critically...