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Science Stories: Series 6

Making Natural Products in the Lab

How 19th century chemist Wohler made a natural product in the lab

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Science Stories: Series 6

Descartes' "Daughter"

Philip Ball goes back to the 17th Century to talk about Descartes and his "daughter"

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Science Stories: Series 6

Hypatia: The Murdered Mathematician

Naomi Alderman on the life and death of Hypatia, the ancient Greek mathematician

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Science Stories: Series 6

Mary Anning and Fossil Hunting

How a poor woman became one of 19th-century Britain's most successful fossil finders

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In Their Element

Fluorine

How the feared element ended up giving us better teeth, mood and health

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In Their Element

Iron

How iron has shaped human biology and culture

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In Their Element

Sodium

Why sodium powers everything we do

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Heatwave

The Long Hot Summer

Roland Pease asks why the Northern Hemisphere had unusually high temperatures this year.

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Heatwave

The Long Hot Summer - Part Two

How did mild temperatures in the Arctic affect 2018's extreme weather?

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China's Organ Transplants

Who To Believe?

Matthew Hill explores the Chinese approach to organ transplantation.

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China's Organ Transplants

Tourism and Transparency

Matthew Hill explores the Chinese approach to organ transplantation.

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Cooling the City

How can we adapt and prepare our cities for extreme weather conditions?

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Tracking the First Animals on Earth

In search of the first animals on the Earth, more than half a billion years ago

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The Genius of Accidents

Viagra and CRISPR

Viagra was first developed to treat heart disease, but it had some surprising side-effects

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The Genius of Accidents

The Big Bang and Jet Streams

Evidence for the big bang was initially thought to be a mistake in the data

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The Genius of Accidents

Finding the Coelacanths

A huge, four-limbed fish, was discovered 65 million years after its supposed extinction

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Plastic Fantastic

Why We Fell In Love with Plastic

Professor Mark Miodownik explores our love/hate relationship with plastic.

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Plastic Fantastic

How Much Plastic Can We Recycle?

Professor Mark Miodownik explores our love/hate relationship with plastic.

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Plastic Fantastic

The China Syndrome

China's ban on importing other countries' waste plastic is having a big impact

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The Supercalculators

Alex Bellos meets the supercalculators taking part in the Mental Calculation World Cup.

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Earthrise

The story of one of the most iconic photos of the last 50 years

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Eddington's eclipse and Einstein's celebrity

Philip Ball tells the story of Arthur Eddington's confirmation of general relativity

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Science Stories: Series 7

Lucretius, Sheep and Atoms

Two thousand years ago Lucretius composed about atoms and the natural world

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Science Stories: Series 7

Kepler's Snowflake

Philip Ball tells the story of Johannes Kepler and the six cornered snowflake.

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Science Stories: Series 7

Ibn al-Haytham: The Father of Modern Optics

The Arabic scholar who showed how light and the human eye produce our sense of vision

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The Chase

Eye in the Sky

SOFIA is a flying observatory setting out to study Titan, Saturn鈥檚 biggest moon

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The Chase

Back from the Dead

The hunt for the Night Parrot: a fat, dumpy, green parrot that lives in the desert

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The Chase

Trouble in paradise

How scientists are trying to eradicate rats and mosquitoes threatening French Polynesia

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The Chase

Tracks across time

Scientists race to save a set of 95-million-year-old footprints

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Chemists' Dirty Secrets

From the Crimean War to the end of World War Two

Andrea Sella looks at the role chemists have played in the development of weapons

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