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Glued Up: The Sticky Story of Humanity

Materials scientist Mark Miodownik explores how glues hold our world together and charts the journey of human progress through the sticky substances that have shaped us.

Radio 4,5 episodes

Episodes

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Coming Unstuck
Modern glues are incredibly strong - but are they too good?
14 mins19 Apr 2024
War and Wounds
The accidental invention of superglue has saved lives on battlefields and operating tables
14 mins18 Apr 2024
How glues helped us fly
Some of the biggest revolutions in aircraft design have been down to adhesives.
14 mins17 Apr 2024
How rubber changed the world
Latex, the sticky sap of the rubber tree, transformed everything in the 19th century.
14 mins16 Apr 2024
The Birth of Civilisation
Glues hold our world together – and have done since the dawn of civilisation.
14 mins15 Apr 2024

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Glued Up: The Sticky Story of Humanity

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