Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins of infectious disease. Infectious disease has been w
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the neutrino.In 1930 the physicist Wolfgang Pauli proposed the e
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the age of the Universe.Since the 18th century, when scientists
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the nervous system.Most animals have a nervous system, a network
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss randomness and pseudorandomness.Randomness is the mathematics of
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the innovations and influence of Thomas Edison, one of the archi
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the role played by women in Enlightenment science. During the ei
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of logic. Logic, the study of reasoning and argument
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss imaginary numbers. In the sixteenth century, a group of mathemat
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Pliny's Natural History.Some time in the first century AD, the R
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of Antarctica.The most southerly of the continents i
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Neanderthals.In 1856, quarry workers in Germany found bones
From the 1600s to the 1800s, scientific research in Britain was not yet a professional, publicly-fun
The Cool Universe is the name astronomers give to the matter between the stars.These great clouds of
Melvyn Bragg and guests Usha Goswami, Annette Karmiloff-Smith and Denis Mareschal discuss what new r
Melvyn Bragg and guests John Barrow, Colva Roney-Dougal and Marcus du Sautoy explore the unintended
As part of the BBC's year of science programming, Melvyn Bragg looks at the history of the oldest sc
