In Our Time: Science podcast

In Our Time: Science

Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.

Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.

 

#291

Pollination

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

03 Apr 2025

50 MINS

50:10

03 Apr 2025


#290

Slime Moulds

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

30 Jan 2025

51 MINS

51:30

30 Jan 2025


#289

The Habitability of Planets

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

09 Jan 2025

52 MINS

52:50

09 Jan 2025


#288

The Antikythera Mechanism

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

12 Dec 2024

50 MINS

50:35

12 Dec 2024


#287

Wormholes

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

24 Oct 2024

1 HR 00 MINS

1:00:56

24 Oct 2024


#286

Bacteriophages

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

01 Aug 2024

50 MINS

50:43

01 Aug 2024


#285

Mercury

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

30 May 2024

53 MINS

53:49

30 May 2024


#284

Nikola Tesla

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

02 May 2024

52 MINS

52:50

02 May 2024


#283

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

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

28 Mar 2024

58 MINS

58:02

28 Mar 2024


#282

Hormones

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

07 Mar 2024

50 MINS

50:13

07 Mar 2024


#281

Plankton

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

02 Nov 2023

48 MINS

48:41

02 Nov 2023