The most-downloaded thesis of all time that crashed Cambridge's server.....
Interviews about History
Interviews on archaeology, anthropology, palaeoanthropology and the history of science...
09 November 2015
This week scientists have picked apart the qualities needed to make a good leader in both humans and the animal...
27 October 2015
Human space travel is dangerous and expensive but its ability to inspire justifies the costs...
27 October 2015
What did the moon landings teach us about why humans go to space?
19 October 2015
How would society function on a small, dangerous planet over 30 million miles away from Earth?
13 October 2015
Is winning the Nobel Prize everything its cracked up to be?
11 October 2015
A study led by researchers at the University of Oxford shows that there’s been extensive immigration into and around...
21 September 2015
Dogs and their owners are being recruited as citizen scientists.
14 September 2015
The discovery of a new species of human ancestor, called Homo naledi, has been unveiled by scientists in South Africa...
07 September 2015
Students go in search of microrganisms to find out which species grow on what buildings - research that has never been...
07 September 2015
Despite the media storm, evidence suggests there may not be a shortage of STEM scientists, so why does the debate...
07 September 2015
Aged 10, Amy published her school project in a scientific journal and it changed her entire life...
24 August 2015
Symmetry underpins much of modern physics and maths but what exactly is it?
24 August 2015
Symmetry and physics have become completely inseparable over the last century, but how do they fit together?
17 August 2015
Rock formations can give clues about the climate in the past, but until now, we could only guess at how these...
10 August 2015
Researchers have discovered the first example of reproduction in complex life, in an organism called Fractofusus,...
21 July 2015
One of the seven problems have been solved but the Russian who found the solution refused the money. We hear his story...
21 July 2015
The Millennium Maths Problems, if solved, could revolutionise our World but what will it take to crack them? And what...