Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how some animals sense their world with sound not sight.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Proton, found in the nuclei of all elements.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George and Robert Stephenson and the birth of railways.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pioneering scientist Rosalind Franklin.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss fungi.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the biology of squid, octopus, cuttlefish and nautilus.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gauss, one of the great mathematicians.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss which dinosaurs were feathered, and their links to birds.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how birds navigate and the risks and benefits of migration
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss enzymes, the catalysts essential for life.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louis Pasteur, known as a founder of microbiology.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wolfgang Pauli and the Pauli Exclusion Principle.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the highest global temperatures in the last 65m years.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the icy Kuiper Belt region beyond Neptune, home to Pluto.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the flourishing of maths in the Islamic world from C8th.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Parasitism, where one species gains at the cost of another
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss astronomer Johannes Kepler.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss scientist John Dalton.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss plasma, one of the fundamental states of matter.
Does an arrow in flight move and could Achilles overtake a tortoise? Not according to Zeno
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the invention of photography.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of penicillin.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Elements of Euclid.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 1816, known as the year without a summer.
