Quentin Cooper looks at the therapeutic possibilites of virtual reality.
Published on Wednesday, 24th December 2014.
Can maths reveal hidden patterns in global terrorism? Dr Hannah Fry investigates.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd December 2014.
Prof Adam Hart explores a new field in zoology - animal personality.
Published on Wednesday, 10th December 2014.
Can stimulating the vagus nerve improve health? Gaia Vince explores this new research area
Published on Monday, 8th December 2014.
Jack Stewart meets the pioneers redesigning our international airspace.
Published on Wednesday, 3rd December 2014.
Billed as 'the sexiest space mission ever', did Rosetta's probe land safely on its comet?
Published on Wednesday, 12th November 2014.
Have astronomers really found gravitational waves from the Big Bang as announced in March?
Published on Wednesday, 9th July 2014.
Adam Hart on how insect and cell structure research is helping develop swarming robots.
Published on Wednesday, 2nd July 2014.
Linda Geddes explores the latest research into how general anaesthetics work in the body.
Published on Wednesday, 25th June 2014.
Gaia Vince looks at the future of power transmission.
Published on Wednesday, 18th June 2014.
Do our mental powers really decline in old age?
Published on Wednesday, 11th June 2014.
Jack Stewart meets the engineers inventing vehicles that drive themselves.
Published on Wednesday, 4th June 2014.
Linda Geddes explores research into the differences between morning and evening people.
Published on Thursday, 19th December 2013.
Gaia Vince asks if geoengineering by blocking the sun could stop the earth warming up.
Published on Wednesday, 11th December 2013.
Prof Andrea Sella looks at efforts to reduce our dependence on the Haber-Bosch process.
Published on Wednesday, 4th December 2013.
Quentin Cooper takes a look at the new materials that can mend themselves.
Published on Wednesday, 27th November 2013.
The crucial role of our unconscious, and how scientists are now harnessing its powers.
Published on Wednesday, 20th November 2013.
New insights into the important relationship we have with microbes that live in our gut.
Published on Wednesday, 13th November 2013.
Linda Geddes asks if taking the hormone oxytocin can make people more sociable.
Published on Wednesday, 17th July 2013.
How 26 miles of precision-engineered tunnels are created through London's erratic geology.
Published on Wednesday, 10th July 2013.
Roland Pease on the idea that life on early Earth led to the evolution of plate tectonics.
Published on Wednesday, 3rd July 2013.
Gaia Vince asks if we can ever run our vehicles on biofuels from algae or bacteria.
Published on Wednesday, 26th June 2013.
Can we beat bacteria by stopping the bugs from talking to each other?
Published on Wednesday, 19th June 2013.
Roland Pease reports on scientists building brains from scratch in the lab.
Published on Friday, 14th June 2013.
Rebecca Morelle explores how the forensic science of speech is helping to solve crime.
Published on Wednesday, 12th December 2012.
Adam Rutherford reports on the recent discovery that much of our DNA is not useless junk.
Published on Thursday, 6th December 2012.
Geoff Watts looks into how scientists can use the mind to control artificial limbs.
Published on Wednesday, 28th November 2012.
Has humanity launched a new geological time period? Gaia Vince on the Anthropocene Epoch.
Published on Wednesday, 21st November 2012.
Dr Yan Wong explores new theories on gender and ageing.
Published on Wednesday, 14th November 2012.
Tracey Logan asks what particle physicists are doing after finding the Higgs boson.
Published on Wednesday, 7th November 2012.