Scientists, theories and discoveries
People and principles that helped us understand how our planet - and our universe - work
A forgotten founder of climate science: Eunice Newton Foote
The first person to link CO2 with global warming, and why she vanished from history
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Radio waves and plants: The life of JC Bose
How physics and biology entwined in JC Bose's search for the unity of all life on Earth
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Fertiliser and poison gas: The legacy of chemist Fritz Haber
The scientist who helped feed billions, and unleashed a new kind of death
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Sofya Kovalevskaya: The eventful life of a maths pioneer
A brilliant Russian whose scientific discoveries helped to reshape European universities
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Copper: From mining to microprocessors
The shiny red metal our lives depend on that has powered human development
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Algae: Slime life
The evolution of life’s original alchemists
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Mary Somerville: The queen of 19th-Century science
The 19th-Century polymath who popularised science for generations of readers
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Algorithms: From the ancients to the internet
The 4,000-year history of the mathematical operations that now govern our daily lives.
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Mars: A history of the Red Planet
When might we send humans to one of our closest neighbours in our solar system?
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Tracing the roots of ancient trees
What can we learn from the oldest trees on earth?
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Emilie du Chatelet: a free-spirited physicist
The life and work of a remarkable 18th-century polymath
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The amazing Dr Darwin
The life of Erasmus Darwin, one of the most remarkable minds in 18th Century Britain
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The Moon from Earth
The science, culture and mythology of the Moon
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Einstein: Revolution in time and space
How one man defined the role of science and scientists in the modern age
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Inside the mind of Leonardo da Vinci
The Italian artist’s unique understanding of science and the natural world
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The invention of numbers
How numbers and counting shaped our world
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The alphabet of chemistry
The history of the Periodic Table of the elements
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Nikola Tesla’s electric dreams
A showman and a dreamer or an engineering genius well ahead of his time?
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Rain or shine? A short history of the weather forecast
A century and a half of scientific meteorology
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Carl Linnaeus: Naming nature
The botanist who created a classification system to understand the natural world
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Telling the time: From sundials to satnav
A brief history of how we tell the time
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How the metre changed the world
The universal unit of length that joined up the globe
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