Dr Mark Porter puts the BMI, or bodymass index, to the test. BMI calculates whether someone is too fat, too thin or just right but how accurate is...

Today, astronomers believe the universe is a violent, constantly changing place. But it was not always the case.

At the beginning of the 19th...

Felled by a sniper's bullet in the Dardanelles on 10 August 1915, Henry Moseley had been the brightest hope in British physics. Not yet 30, his...

In 1856, a teenager experimenting at home accidentally made a colour that was more gaudy and garish than anything that had gone before. William...

What does it take to be remembered well? The discovery of the structure of DNA is often attributed to James Watson and Francis Crick. But a third man...

The engine that nearly ran out of steam.

Naomi Alderman tells the story of James Watt and the steam engine that nearly never got made. A breath of...

Episode 2 - Deep Space

A sonic tour of the universe, with solar scientist, Dr Lucie Green.
In the previous episode, we listened in to the sounds of...

The previously silent world of outer space is getting noisier. In this audio tour of the Solar System, Dr Lucie Green listens in to the Sounds of...

A debate about the state of scientific research in Europe, recorded in Brussels on the day when the European Research Council was celebrating its...

In the first of a new series looking at amazing events and characters from science history, Tracey Logan takes us back to the wild west of America,...