Quick Fire Science, from the Naked Scientists

The waiting list for kidney transplants is one of the longest. Here's Phil Sansom with the QuickFire Science of kidney t... Read more

Advances in genetics and molecular biology mean that it is now possible to treat and even cure a raft of disorders for w... Read more

Human papillomaviruses are the cause of cervical and head and neck cancers in men and women. About half of the adult pop... Read more

Worldwide, nearly 40 million people are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Here's the Quick Fire Science, wi... Read more

Up to 10% of young people are infected with chlamydia. Here's the Quick Fire Science, from Phil Sansom...Chlamydia is a ... Read more

It has been announced by the government that driverless cars will be trialled on the roads of the UK by January 2015. Th... Read more

Last weekend, many people will have noticed the moon looking especially bigand bright. This is because of a phenomenon k... Read more

US government this week discovered vials of smallpox virus whilst cleaning out an old storeroom. This was shocking, as i... Read more

Last week, the 2nd to last to last wild born Spix's Macaw died. The 40 year old parrot, named Presley, was thought to ha... Read more

Capital punishment hasn't been used in the UK since 1964, however many countries, including the USA and China, still exe... Read more