Interviews about History

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...

Before we get into the questions, it's time to introduce the panel...

How time can tell you where you are at sea

Adam Murphy’s been looking at some cracking science: using eggshells to take a dinosaur’s temperature...

To what extent will departing from the EU affect UK science?

New data shows that body temperature has fallen since the 19th century...