Philip Ball tells the story of Alexis Carrel, the French surgeon who worked to preserve life outside the body and... more

Philip Ball's story is of Ibn al-Haytham, the first scientist, and his book of optics that defined how we see.

Naomi Alderman's Science Story reveals how Lady Mary Wortley Montagu experimented on her own child in a quest to prove... more

Philip Ball reveals the tale of a small booklet 'On The Six-Cornered Snowflake", written by Johannes Kepler as a New... more

Naomi Alderman's tale is of Lucretius, author of a 2000 year old poem that theorised about atoms and the natural... more

Eddington's Eclipse and Einstein's CelebrityPhilip Ball's tale is of a solar eclipse 100 years ago observed by Arthur Eddington, a... more

Mary Anning lived in Lyme Regis on what is now known as the Jurassic Coast in the first half of... more

Naomi Alderman's tale is a murder mystery, the story of Hypatia, the mathematician murdered by a mob in the learned... more

There's a story told about French philosopher René Descartes and his daughter. He boards a ship for a voyage over... more

Philip Ball tells the story of German chemist Friedrich Wöhler's creation of urea, an organic substance previously thought only to... more