Dr Seth Berkley is an epidemiologist and global health leader whose career has been shaped by one central problem: vaccines save lives, but only if...

   Hiranya Peiris is playing a starring role in a movie that promises to tell perhaps the greatest story of all time. However, it’s a movie with a...

   As a child growing up on the shores of Lake Victoria in western Kenya, Washington Yotto Ochieng once watched a plane cross the night sky and told his...

   Working on a remote tropical island in the Atlantic might sound like some sort of romantic idyll - but trying to conduct scientific research on a...

   As recently as a few years ago, the idea of a self-administered injection that would deliver proven weight-loss results might have sounded...

   It’s a rare thing to encounter a medical specialist who has experience of his field from the expert and the patient perspective - but not unheard of....

   I shall largely speak of mice, the paper begins but my thoughts are on man. So begins a truly extraordinary scientific paper, and an equally...

   In July 2024 a startling scientific paper was published.Headlined Evidence of dark oxygen production at the abyssal seafloor’, scientists told how...

   The rapid spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria is already claiming lives - and a far greater global crisis is on the horizon.In this three part...

   The rapid spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria is already claiming lives and a far greater global crisis is on the horizon.In this three part...

   The rapid spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria is already claiming lives and a far greater global crisis is on the horizon. In the first episode...

   Ever heard of the unsuccessful Dutch painter who decided to humiliate his critics by forging Vermeers, which the artworld subsequently dubbed ...

   Tony Juniper is an environmentalist who has worn many hats, over the course of his career. After developing a passion for birds in childhood, his...

   The COP30 climate summit is taking place in the Brazilian city of Belém, a gateway to the Amazon rainforest, which continues to face widespread...

   Imagine if you were listening to an opera or a Taylor Swift concert, and as the lights in the auditorium dimmed, the music was accompanied by a...

   Caroline Smith is passionate about space rocks, whether they’re samples collected from the surface of asteroids and the Moon and hopefully Mars one...

   From humble beginnings in his native Sri Lanka, to a more than 40 year academic career at Queen’s University Belfast, Prof. AP (Amilra Prasanna) De...

   In July 1545, King Henry VIII watched from Southsea Castle on England’s south coast as his fleet sailed out to face the French - only to witness his...

   There are problems and tasks so hard and complicated that it would take today’s most powerful supercomputers millions of years to crack them. But in...

   The very latest developments in the world of Earth science with Roland Pease, recorded at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in New Orleans...

   The very latest developments in the world of space science with Roland Pease, recorded at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in New Orleans...

   Quantum theory - our best understanding of the world at the smallest level - is famously weird and notoriously confusing. It’s a theory that seems to...

   My ideas are often labelled as impossible, or useless, or both. Usually when people say that I’m on the right track. George Church is a geneticist,...

   Movies might have us believe that bomb disposal comes down to cutting the right wire. In fact, explosive devices are complex and varied - and...

   Many people will be familiar with Parkinson’s disease: the progressive brain disorder that causes symptoms including tremors and slower movement,...

   How do you feel about snakes? What about highly venomous ones?For Mark O’Shea, close encounters with the world’s most rare and deadly snakes are not...

   What’s it like to wake up with a brand new voice? For those with foreign accent syndrome, this is their reality. Patients who develop this rare...

   We live in a time of automation and robotics; the machines run the factories, and AI will soon take all the jobs. Yet, even today, there are certain...

   The London Anatomy Office accepts around 350 human bodies donated for medical research and education annually. You may imagine that these bodies are...

   There can’t be many people in the world who’ve saved lives in hospital emergency rooms and also helped care for the wellbeing of astronauts in space ...

   Chemical reactions are the backbone of modern society: the energy we use, the medicines we take, our housing materials, even the foods we eat, are...

   Have you ever considered the lighter side of dark matter?Comedy has proved an unexpectedly succesful way to engage people with science - as today’s...

   As a young man, traveling in Africa, Tim Coulson - now Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford - became seriously ill with malaria and was...

   Have you ever pondered the fact that the universe is expanding? And not only that, it’s expanding at an increasing speed - meaning everything around...

   The celebrated primatologist Jane Goodall died last week at the age of 91. In tribute, we’re re-sharing this interview from 2020, where she reflects...

   How much information can you extract from a burnt fragment of human bone?Quite a lot, it turns out - not only about the individual, but also their...

   Surgeons often have to deal with the consequences of violent attacks - becoming all too familiar with patterns of public violence, and peaks around...

   Doyne Farmer is something of a rebel. Back in the seventies, when he was a student, he walked into a casino in Las Vegas, sat down at a roulette...

   Elephants are the largest living land mammal and today our planet is home to three species: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant,...

   What does it take to earn the nickname, The Leonardo da Vinci of heart surgery’?That’s the moniker given to today’s guest - a man who pioneered high...

   Claudia de Rham has rather an unusual relationship with gravity.While she has spent her career exploring its fundamental nature, much of her free...

   When you think of Artificial Intelligence, does it inspire confidence, or concern?Although it’s now generally accepted that this technology will play...

   A frozen, white world at the far-reaches of the globe, where you’re surrounded by snow and silence, might sound rather appealing. Factor in...

   Welcome to a world where medicine meets politics: a space that brings together scientific research, government wrangling, public push-back and...

   Investigating an insect known for eating its prey alive - including, at times, its own species - the praying mantis With bulging eyes and a...

   Investigating an elusive big cat known for its excellent tree climbing abilities - the leopard This master of camouflage is found from the south of...

   On this episode of The Evidence, Claudia Hammond discusses all things hydration with a panel of experts. Where do our hydration guidelines come from?...

   Named after a beast from Greek mythology, the harpy eagle is widely considered to be the most powerful bird of prey due to its strong legs and huge...

   Investigating the black-and-white apex predator of the sea - the killer whale Able to predate even great white sharks, this marine mammal is the...

   What’s it like living underwater for two weeks? What’s the trickiest part of training to be an astronaut? What are the most memorable sights you see...