Interviews about History

65 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth, until suddenly they all vanished off the planet forever. What killed...

Giant marsupials used to roam Australia, but when humans arrived 60 000 years ago, they suddenly became extinct. Did...

Do you believe the hype? Universities guilty of 'sexing up' science, leading to a saturation of media...

When we speak to our dogs, is anything going on behind those puppy-dog eyes?

A man went to the doctors complaining of a headache, strange smell sensations and fits. A worm in his brain was to...

We hear from someone in a new treatment clinic in Sierra Leone, lending their hand to the fight against Ebola.

UK University energy bills are more than £400 million per year. Cambridge University is running 'Switch off Week...

Deborah Hyde examines our fascination with vampires and werewolves, and where the ideas came from...

Were the Victorians as severe on children as we believe? What did they think was in a child's brain? And what...

Powered by fatbergs, a new super sewer, will stop sewage polluting the River Thames...

The latest Nobel prizes have been announced, but who won them and what for?

A set of 149 papers that were retracted due to misconduct had been funded to the tune of $58m by the NIH.

What are the odds that there is intelligent life out there, and could we communicate with it?

A big part of finding ET is understanding what life actually is. We speak to Nick Lane to find out how life and non...

Human faces are much more diverse and varied than we would expect, compared to animal visages and other body parts.

A new, nanoparticle treatment for multiple sclerosis is about to be trialled in Cambridge.

New research is showing that Ancient Egyptians were mummifying their dead a lot longer ago than previously imagined,...

Drugs to make you smarter, helmets to induce creativity, brain scans to convict people and mind findings in military...

With the planet in the middle of its 6th mass extinction event, does de-extinction hold any hope for the species we are...

Why was a population of ancient humans munching on a rather foul tasting weed, even after the dawn of agriculture?

The Tour de France has been running since 1903 only stopping for the two world wars. So how much have bikes changed...

A 3D print of the spine of King Richard III has shown that the monarch probably wasn't a hunchback...

Commercial science publishing is distorting the process, argues eLife Editor in Chief, Randy Schekman...

This new prize offers £10 million to individuals who can solve 6 pressing modern day problems.