Interviews about History

本周启动细胞的中心, a new children orientated science center located in the heart of...

There's a new method of archaeological dating in town and it doesn't involve wine or chocolate....

We find out how life in the ancient Greek home wasn't just dinner and a game of Trivial Pursuit...

Where did spectroscopy come from? This week's element is erbium: an otherwise little-known substance with a...

This week in science history saw, in 1883, the catastrophic eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia. The eruption and...

Thallium: the poisonous poison.

This week in science history saw, in 1897, Felix Hoffman first synthesise a stable form of acetylsalicylic acid for...

And now for the first chapter in a new series we're introducing on the show over the summer called Chemistry in...

The Naked Scientists attended the opening of the new multi-million unit at the Babraham Insititute and bumped into...

This week in science history saw, in 1968, the death of Otto Hahn, the German chemist who co-discovered nuclear fission...

It looks as if the world of scientific papers is about to be transformed. Cell Editor, Emilie Marcus, explains:

This week in science history saw, in 1867, Alfred Nobel first demonstrate dynamite in the UK, at Merstham Quarry in...

Darwin meets Hip hop at Baba Brinkman unveils his Rap Guide to Evolution at Cambridge University's Darwin Festival...

Earlier this week, it was the World Conference of Science Journalists. Nearly a thousand science writers and...

This week in science history saw, in 1869, the birth of Hans Spemann, a German embryologist who won a Nobel Prize for...

This Week in Science History saw, in 1946, the death of John Logie Baird, the pioneer of television. Sarah Castor-...

2009 marks a 100 years since the opening of London Science Museum. To mark this special anniversary, the Science...

This Week in Science History saw, in 1958, the publication of a significant paper that began the use of ultrasound as a...

This Week in Science History saw, in 1981, the publication of an article that was the first to describe a new endemic...

This Week in Science History saw in 1919, the solar eclipse that proved Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity...

Albinism - Why Some People have No Skin Pigmentation

Evolution of Skin Colours

This week in science history saw, in 1927, the death of Eduard Bruckner, the German geographer and climatologist who...

This week in science history saw, in 1852, the publication of a paper by Edward Frankland describing the valence theory...