Interviews about History

Human space travel is dangerous and expensive but its ability to inspire justifies the costs...

What did the moon landings teach us about why humans go to space?

How would society function on a small, dangerous planet over 30 million miles away from Earth?

DNA analysis from 4,500 year old remains sheds light on how ancient humans migrated out of Africa, and then back in...

Is winning the Nobel Prize everything its cracked up to be?

Without gravity, things get interesting (especially when it comes to showering!) as NASA astronaut Stanley G. Love...

A study led by researchers at the University of Oxford shows that there’s been extensive immigration into and around...

With so many people applying, how does NASA choose its astronauts?

Dogs and their owners are being recruited as citizen scientists.

The discovery of a new species of human ancestor, called Homo naledi, has been unveiled by scientists in South Africa...

Students go in search of microrganisms to find out which species grow on what buildings - research that has never been...

Despite the media storm, evidence suggests there may not be a shortage of STEM scientists, so why does the debate...

Aged 10, Amy published her school project in a scientific journal and it changed her entire life...

For most, science is defined by textbook assignments, but this is set to change. Will 15-year olds soon be publishing...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper belt, an area of space which is proving very tricky to study...

Should our time and money be going towards projects that are closer to home?

Symmetry in faces is often linked with attractiveness, but why is this the case?

Symmetry underpins much of modern physics and maths but what exactly is it?

Symmetry and physics have become completely inseparable over the last century, but how do they fit together?

Rock formations can give clues about the climate in the past, but until now, we could only guess at how these...

An organism called Fractofusus, 565 million years ago, is the first fossil example of life reproducing itself.

One of the seven problems have been solved but the Russian who found the solution refused the money. We hear his story...

The Millennium Maths Problems, if solved, could revolutionise our World but what will it take to crack them? And what...

Screaming is something we're all programmed to do but why and what makes a scream so alarming?