Interviews about History

What is spaghettification? How do you define the kilogram? Adam provides the trivia treats...

Rosalind's sister, Jenifer, has many fond memories of Rosalind

How does Rosalind Franklin fit in the DNA story?

The science of naming science

Can you guess my name from the clues?

The dead sea scrolls are a famous historical treasure. And ancient DNA has uncovered new clues...

Wieman won a Nobel prize for making a Bose-Einstein condensate - seventy years after they were predicted...

How have scientists adapted through history?

How does science reach governments and politicians? It's not a transparent process...

Preprint servers let scientists communicate and collaborate - but are they bypassing peer review?

In some fields, three fifths of published papers can't be replicated or independently verified...

How the peer review process got started, and how it's changed

Using science to keep Nobel prizes safe

How the atomic bomb was developed

The road to breaking the enigma cipher.

Identifying and commemorating the victims of the medical experiments

The development of the V2 rockets

How did radar change the course of the war?

Going from biplanes to spitfires

Can the players identify these famous scientists?

Which team were crowned the winners of the Naked Scientists pub quiz?

We have a sneak peek of a new bio-pic all about Marie Curie

Adam Murphy’s been looking back home with this tribute to Irish science…

If you've sequenced your DNA, be careful what you do with it...