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Lise Meitner: Humanitarian physicist who unlocked the science of the atom bomb
Lise Meitner, the humanitarian physicist who unlocked the science of the atom bomb.
The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars
How a 13-year-old girl mapped metamorphosis in the 1600s. Naomi Alderman presents.
A wolf, a goat and some cabbages
Philip Ball dives into the Dark Ages to reveal the author of the river crossing riddle.
Caroline Herschel and the Comets
Naomi Alderman tells the story of 18th-century comet spotter and singer Caroline Herschel.
The Man Who Found Physics in Shells, Seeds and Bees
The man who put maths into biology and saw physics in shells, seeds and bees 100 years ago
The Anglo-Saxon remedy that kills MRSA
Naomi Alderman opens the pages of medieval recipe books to find antimicrobial salves.
The Medieval Bishop's Big Bang Theory
Philip Ball on a very modern medieval Big Bang Theory forged by a 13th-century bishop.
Pavlov and his Dogs
Naomi Alderman tells the story of Pavlov and his selectively drooling dogs.
The Birth of Photography
How William Fox Talbot captured a moment in time.
Jumping Genes
Philip Ball tells the story of US geneticist and 1983 Nobel prize-winner Barbara McLintock
