Latest Interviews


Looking under the hood of AI

Added: 16 Jan 2024

Royal Institution lecturer Professor Mike Wooldridge expands on the scientific and ethical dimensio…

Big Ask: Pushing the boundaries

Added: 10 Jul 2023

Terahertz technology may be in its relative infancy but fortunately the scientist leading the Natio…

In agro: field labs and farmer-led research

Added: 19 Jun 2022

The Innovative Farmers not for profit network brings together farmers and growers with researchers …

Understanding menopause in your workforce

Added: 1 Mar 2022

While jumping at the chance to tell her personal story about how menopause has affected her work, t…

The promise of COVID-19 surveillance through wastewater testing

Added: 22 Dec 2021

Pandemic modelling data can be gathered through mass testing by monitoring viral RNA levels in wast…

Pandemic accelerates automation in the lab sector

Added: 15 Oct 2021

Laboratories are just one of the many businesses that were forced to adapt operations because of th…

Banking botanicals: protecting plants and safeguarding seeds

Added: 16 Jul 2021

Following up on the wonderful photo story, ‘Botanical biodiversity banked’, published on our websit…

What a tip…

Added: 28 Feb 2020

A life-long fascination, a haven for rare species and a multi-legged monster new to science… Liam O…

An ode to imagination

Added: 15 Jan 2020

Frustrated by siloed science, Dr Jennifer Rohn bemoans the lack of cross-disciplinary imagination t…

A real chemical showman

Added: 28 Aug 2019

Science populariser and chemist extraordinaire Andrea Sella will be a keynote speaker at this year’…

In his element

Added: 29 Jul 2019

We spoke to astrobiologist Robert Hazen whose new book, Symphony in C, draws parallels between carb…

Just play the game

Added: 10 Jun 2019

Games have never been more popular – but can they really help in the teaching of science? You bet y…

One man’s trash

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Plastics have become a deeply worrying environmental issue, but it is unlikely that demand will dro…

Using science to change our world

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As the Royal Institution sets it sights on expanding the public understanding of science, we hear f…

Getting the right exposure

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Understanding the totality of environmental exposures from conception onward and what that might do…

The art of the matter

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Last month we chatted with Dr Iris Salecker of the Visual Circuit Assembly Laboratory to find out w…