In Our Time: Science

Since plants have to mate and produce offspring while rooted to the spot, they have to be ... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss slime mould, a basic organism that grows on logs, cowpats ... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the great unanswered questions in science: how and... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 2000-year-old device which transformed our understandi... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the tantalising idea that there are shortcuts between dist... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most abundant lifeform on Earth: the viruses that 'eat... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet which is closest to our Sun. We see it as an ev... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) and... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German physicist who, at the age of 23 and while still... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the chemical signals coursing through our bodies t... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the tiny drifting organisms in the oceans that sustain the... more