Discovery Science Stories: Series 6Episodes Available now

Mary Anning and Fossil Hunting

5/5How a poor woman became one of 19th-century Britain's most successful fossil finders

4/5Naomi Alderman on the life and death of Hypatia, the ancient Greek mathematician

3/5Philip Ball goes back to the 17th Century to talk about Descartes and his "daughter"

2/5How 19th century chemist Wohler made a natural product in the lab

1/5Philip Ball on the real Cyrano de Bergerac and his 17th century space ship.