Interviews about History

The largest movement of people in recorded history has had an enormous impact on our world today...

More people are on the move nowadays than ever before. A migration expert explains why...

How successful have open access policies been?

The main genetic risk factor for serious coronavirus infections comes from Neanderthals...

History's largest ever forced migration changed the world's genetic landscape. Here's how it was tracked...

Meet our featured guests this week: palaeoanthropologist Lee Berger, and journal editor Theo Bloom...

This gene cluster is linked to more severe COVID-19 infections, and perfectly matches Neanderthal DNA...

The unlikely coincidences in our history that led to all of us being here today...

Meet the winning discoveries: Hepatitis C, the gene editing technique CRISPR, and a supermassive black hole...

Mithridates the Great, king of Pontus, lived two thousand years ago - and pioneered the science of poisons...

Hearing about the new coronavirus, many were struck with déjà vu - because parts have happened before...

Analysis of the very first SARS-CoV-2 samples shows they already looked evolved to infect us...

When it comes to the origins of COVID, there are still lots of unknowns. But we can be sure of a sequel...

What's the world's largest organism? How did gin & tonic change the world? Stories from the living world...

From gold blood, to blue blood, to blood on the dance floor - here are some weird science stories...

Time for some extra credit 'material' from the Chemistry & Materials round...

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?