Interviews about History

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...

This week in science history saw, in 1952, the inventor Geoffrey Dummer present his idea of the integrated circuit, now...

Stephan Zielinski has made his own viral music from swine flu using a simple sequence of amino acids found in swine flu...

This week in science history saw, in 1878, Louis Pasteur give his important lecture on his evidence in support of ‘germ...

On the 19th April 1943, Dr Albert Hoffman tested a substance he had derived from Ergot, and discovered it's strong...

This week in science history saw, in 1923, purified extracts of the hormone insulin being made widely available for the...

The Naked Scientists Live Show - Crisp Packet Fireworks, played to sold out houses in Grahamstown and Cape Town. Meera...

Fossils of the Coeacanth fish over 70 million years old are well known, but it was not until 1938 that a living...

This week in science history, in 1981, saw the issuing of a patent to for a genetically modified Pseudomonas bacterium...

Much of the Naked Scientists team is down in South Africa this week. We had a chance to catch up with Meera to find out...

Richard Barnett takes us on a tour of some of the places, characters and events of medical London.

Vivian Nutton explains how medical discoveries and investigations were conducted over 1,800 years ago in the Classical...

Chris Howe explains how methods used to analyse mutations in DNA across generations can be applied to ancient...

Tilli Tansey takes us through the process of making medical history from the last century; including the breakthroughs...

Opthalmologist, Peter Watson, has taken a fresh look at portraits of Galileo which point to a swelling around his eye...

This week in 1853 saw the death of Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist and father of the Doppler effect - one of the...

以只意味着“饭后”as part of the Cambridge Science Festival, the Whipple Museum of...

You've heard the saying "lies, damned lies and statistics", now Ben Goldacre joins us to talk about how...

You may take your telephone for granted, but it all started this week in 1876...

The Wellcome Trust's Darwin initiatives see the science of Darwin taken into schools. Meera went along for the...

This week in 1869, Mendeleev proposed the periodic table now adorning chemistry labs the world over...

Nicola Phillips, from the ABC Radio National's Science Show, speaks to John Long from Museum Victoria about the...

What happens in the brain when we hear laughter? Is there a neuronal basis to why we find the giggles so compelling...