Claudia Hammond investigates criticisms that fingerprinting needs radical reform

Vera Frankl reports on a 21st Century affliction - Internet Addiction Disorder. Should this be classed as a mental health issue?

Roland Pease investigates the future of computing power

At a time when we're being told that livestock production is an inefficient and unsustainable use of resources, Geoff Watts considers progress in...

Fixing the nitrogen fix. Roland Pease asks whether after a hundred years of the old industrial process, there’s a better way of making nitrogen...

Roland Pease looks into the new discipline of Green Chemistry, which seeks to improve our world, without doing harm at the same time. Since before...

Veteran astronaut Jeff Hoffman looks back on 30 years of the Space Shuttle and asks how US astronauts will get into space after it is gone

Adam Hart explores the science and history behind honey and the bees that make it. Honey is amazing stuff. Made by an insect, the honeybee, it is a...

Gabrielle Walker investigates how the thin veil of our atmosphere protects life on Earth from the hazards of deep space

Earth's atmosphere is both sustainer and destroyer of life. Gabrielle Walker discovers surprises in how it does so