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The engine that ran out of steam

How the engine that powered the industrial revolution nearly ran out of steam.

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DNA's Third Man

The third man behind the unravelling of DNA's double helix, Maurice Wilkins.

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How Perkin brought purple to the people

How William Perkin brought purple to the people in Victorian London.

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Seeing is Believing - The Leviathan of Parsonstown

Simon Schaffer tells of the astronomers who grappled with evolution long before Darwin.

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Submarine for a Stuart King

The magical world of Conelis Drebbel, inventor of the first submarine in 1621.

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How an eel sparked our interest in electricity

How an eel sparked our interest in electricity

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The meteorite and the hidden hoax

The riddle of the 19th century French meteorite that carried a secret for 100 years.

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The duchess who gatecrashed science

Margaret Cavendish and the birth of the scientific method.

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Einstein's Fridge

What happened when Einstein decided to fix the fridge?

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Florence Nightingale: Statistician

Naomi Alderman tells how Florence Nightingale saved lives with statistics.

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Chaucer's Astrolabe - The Medieval GPS

Chaucer's Astrolabe and how a renowned poet wrote the world's first scientific manual.

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Paul Ehrlich's 'Magic Bullet' and the Cure for Syphilis

Naomi Alderman tells the story of Paul Ehrlich's 'magic bullet' and the cure for syphilis.

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Maxwell's Demon

Philip Ball explains the thought experiment that niggled at physics for a century.

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Blood Banks

How blood donation became segregated and associated with racial identity.

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The Day The Earth Stopped Standing Still

How a dying man's book demoted the earth and reconstructed the universe.

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How Much Testosterone Makes You a Man

How testosterone has been used and abused in history

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The man who predicted deforestation and climate change 200 years ago

The man who predicted deforestation and harmful human-induced climate change 200 years ago

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The Woman Who Tamed Lightning

Naomi Alderman tells the story of engineer Hertha Ayrton, who refined street lights.

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Mesmerism

Philip Ball tells the story of Anton Mesmer and the rise and fall of animal magnetism.

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Jumping Genes

Philip Ball tells the story of US geneticist and 1983 Nobel prize-winner Barbara McLintock

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The Birth of Photography

How William Fox Talbot captured a moment in time.

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Pavlov and his Dogs

Naomi Alderman tells the story of Pavlov and his selectively drooling dogs.

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The Medieval Bishop's Big Bang Theory

Philip Ball on a very modern medieval Big Bang Theory forged by a 13th-century bishop.

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The Anglo-Saxon remedy that kills MRSA

Naomi Alderman opens the pages of medieval recipe books to find antimicrobial salves.

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The Man Who Found Physics in Shells, Seeds and Bees

The man who put maths into biology and saw physics in shells, seeds and bees 100 years ago

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Caroline Herschel and the Comets

Naomi Alderman tells the story of 18th-century comet spotter and singer Caroline Herschel.

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A wolf, a goat and some cabbages

Philip Ball dives into the Dark Ages to reveal the author of the river crossing riddle.

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The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars

How a 13-year-old girl mapped metamorphosis in the 1600s. Naomi Alderman presents.

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Lise Meitner: Humanitarian physicist who unlocked the science of the atom bomb

Lise Meitner, the humanitarian physicist who unlocked the science of the atom bomb.

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How Humphry Davy discovered laughing gas

Naomi Alderman describes how Humphry Davy discovered laughing gas.

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