Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an iconic piece of 20th century maths - Gödel’s Incompleteness Theor
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the music of the spheres, the elegant and poetic idea that the revol
Melvyn Bragg and guests delve into the dark world of genetics under Joseph Stalin in discussing the
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the strange mathematics of probability where heads or tails is a sim
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas about the human brain. Since time immemorial p
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Newton’s Laws of Motion. In 1687 Isaac Newton attempted to explain t
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 19th century mathematician Ada Lovelace. Deep in the heart of t
Melvyn Bragg and guests will be leaving the studio, the planet and indeed, the universe to take a to
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the science of plate tectonics revolutionised our understanding
Melvyn Bragg and guests talk about blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm. These are the four hum
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss mutation in genetics and evolution. When lying mortally ill with can
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Fibonacci Sequence. Named after a 13th century Italian Mathemati
Melvyn Bragg discusses the discovery of Oxygen by Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier. In the lat
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Antimatter, a type of particle predicted by the British physicist, P
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Permian-Triassic boundary. 250 million years ago, in the Permian
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Renaissance Astrology. In Act I Scene II of King Lear, the ne’er do
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss mysterious phenomena called Gravitational Waves in contemporary phys
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss symmetry. Found in Nature - from snowflakes to butterflies - and in
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of anaesthetics, from laughing gas in the 1790s to the d
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of microbiology. We have more microbes in our bodies tha