Fast becoming the face of astronomy after his success on The Sky at Night – Chris Lintott also pioneered the concept of citizen science in the field with Galaxy Zoo, which later became part of the Zooniverse – a collection of web-based  projects that use the efforts and abilities of…

There is more to accelerator physics than just smashing sub atomic particles against each other and putting together the puzzle of the universe. Here, Professor Carsten Welsch, Associate Director of the Cockcroft Institute tells cancer beating proton beams…

Neutrons can be used to answer questions in most scientific disciplines says Professor Andrew Harrison, Director of the Institut Laue-Langevin. Here he tells us all about this amazing resource

A technique designed to help criminologists catch serial killers is being used by scientists to locate sources of disease, control pests and study animal behaviour. But what, exactly is the connection between them? Mark Stevenson, a PhD researcher at Queen Mary, University of London tell us all……

Professor Colin Murrell is the first Director of the Earth and Life Sciences Alliance (ELSA), an initiative that aims to understand how earth and life systems respond to climate change.  ELSA draws together expertise from across Norwich Research Park combining, for example, the insights of…

We chat with Dr Peter Wothers who is delivering this year’s Royal Institution Christmas lectures. Peter, a teaching fellow at the University of Cambridge chemistry department will deliver his three lectures in a series entitled The Modern Alchemist, in front of an audience of schoolchildren in…

In light of a new report from the Institute of Physics which states that nearly half (49%) of all co-ed maintained schools in England do not send even one girl on to do physics A-level, we talk to Heather Williams who works for the NHS as a medical physicist.

We chat to Professor Paul Workman fromThe Institute of Cancer Research – winner of a global award recognising his success at taking pioneering drugs out of the laboratory and into commerical development