Jeremy Webb

Resistance fighter takes the battle to microbes

Webb interviews Timothy Leighton, professor of ultrasonic and underwater acoustics at the University of Southampton UK, regarding healthcare systems and food industries which is threatened by growing resistance to antibiotics. Among other things, Leighton also tells the new approaches antimicrobial resistance

Synthetic biology needs a grand vision

Webb interviews designer Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg about what first appealed to her about synthetic biology. Ginsberg tells how she has explored peoples nascent relationship with synthetic biology and cites other designs she has produced that involve the human body. She shares what people thought of the cheeses made with bodily bacteria and reveals her exploration of the tension between conservationists and synthetic biologists.

Quantum film competition: winning weirdness

Go on a trip around the multiverse with the winner of the Quantum Shorts 2012 film competition, and take in some other funky quantum effects too

Revealing all our data will benefit everyone's lives

Freely available information has the power to make and break companies and enhance our daily life, says Nigel Shadbolt, of the UKs Open Data Institute

Fieldwork with the silicon tribe

At Intel, anthropologist Genevieve Bell provides unique insight into user experience of emerging technologies. In her new book, Divining a Digital Future , she and Paul Dourish examine the impact of ubiquitous computing.

One Minute with Frank Moss.

As the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology moves into a bigger and better premises, its director, Frank Moss, discusses the labs front lines in research

One minute with… Richard Wrangham

In our journey from primitive apes to smart, modern humans one innovation has been overlooked: cooking. In Catching Fire: How cooking made us human , zoologist Richard Wrangham argues it gave us the energy to grow big brains

How I'll spend

Arden Bement Jr. is arguably the most powerful person in US science. What is he planning to do now Obama is in charge?

3 billion

Its John Denhams job to make sure the UK government listens to scientists. Jeremy Webb asked him how he plans to do it