Interviews about History

What's the history of cannabis?

Who were the key players in the history of IVF, and Louise Brown's birth?

How do pilots know when they need to start descending, or where the airport is?

What was Newton's pivotal text about?

A couple discuss their experiences of being scientists and parents.

The human history behind a newly discovered middle finger bone.

What made complex life happen when it did?

Our panelists go head to head and a lifesize (knitted) gut is passed round the studio.

The most-downloaded thesis of all time that crashed Cambridge's server...

How do images end up on the computer screen?

How does a computer work if it doesn't have a processor?

How much energy does it take to power your computer?

Let's meet the panel...

Drawings on rocks reveal the mystery of the first modern humans.

Past, present and FLU-ture.

What killer compounds have emerged from the history books?

What did Homo Naledi's brain look like?

How do you measure a ghost?

Are scientific papers becoming more impenetrable in their lexicon implementation? Indubitably!

Dinosaurs had to contend with bloodsucking ticks millions of years before we did.

Predatory journals are spreading fake science...

Enjoy a glass of wine? So did our neolithic ancestors...

What number is bigger? Tastebuds on a human tongue, or the number of stone blocks used to build the giant pyramid?