People and principles that helped us understand how our planet - and our universe - work
The first person to link CO2 with global warming, and why she vanished from history
How physics and biology entwined in JC Bose's search for the unity of all life on Earth
The scientist who helped feed billions, and unleashed a new kind of death
A brilliant Russian whose scientific discoveries helped to reshape European universities
The shiny red metal our lives depend on that has powered human development
The evolution of life’s original alchemists
The 19th-Century polymath who popularised science for generations of readers
The 4,000-year history of the mathematical operations that now govern our daily lives.
When might we send humans to one of our closest neighbours in our solar system?
What can we learn from the oldest trees on earth?
The life and work of a remarkable 18th-century polymath
The life of Erasmus Darwin, one of the most remarkable minds in 18th Century Britain
The science, culture and mythology of the Moon
How one man defined the role of science and scientists in the modern age
The Italian artist’s unique understanding of science and the natural world
How numbers and counting shaped our world
The history of the Periodic Table of the elements
A showman and a dreamer or an engineering genius well ahead of his time?
A century and a half of scientific meteorology
The botanist who created a classification system to understand the natural world
A brief history of how we tell the time
The universal unit of length that joined up the globe
