In Our Time: Science

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of optics. From telescopes to microscopes, from star-gaz

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, Karl Pop

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek mathematician Archimedes. Reputed to have shouted “Eureka

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Jesuits, a Catholic religious order of priests who became known

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet Mars. Named after the Roman god of war, Mars has been a s

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the contribution Indian mathematicians have made to our understandin

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the speed of light. Scientists and thinkers have been fascinated wit

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Poincaré Conjecture. The great French mathematician Henri Poinca

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Needham Question; why Europe and not China developed modern tech

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Prussian naturalist and explorer Alexander Von Humboldt. He was

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the galaxies. Spread out across the voids of space like spun sugar,

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Carbon. It forms the basis of all organic life and has the amazing a

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the heart. Aristotle considered the heart to be the seat of thought,

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the relationship between astronomy and the British Empire. The 18th

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the search for immunisation. In 1717, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the formation of the Royal Society. In the 17th century the natural

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss negative numbers, a history of mystery and suspicion. In 1759 the Br

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the story of human evolution, which stretches back over six million

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss relativism, a philosophy of shifting sands. "Today, a particularly i

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss prime numbers: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17 … This sequence of numbers goe