Surprising stories from the history of science told by Naomi Alderman and Philip Ball.
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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
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