Professor Cox ends his homage to British Science by looking at how discoveries are made.
Professor Cox grapples with science's darker side, asking why, when science has done so much for us, it often gets such a bad press.
Professor Cox ends his homage to British Science by looking at how discoveries are made.
We have a relationship with few things in nature the way we do with snow: we hate it, we love it, and we think we understand it. But we barely know the contradictory and beautiful components of snow’s character. But that’s something scientists are changing. From the formation of single flakes to the howling 70 km/h winds of lake effect snow storms to the destructive power of avalanches, intrepid researchers are bringing snow science into the 21st Century.
S54E06 • The Nature of Things • 2014 • Science
Science journalist Angela Saini and disability rights activist Adam Pearson, reveal that eugenics - the controversial idea that was a driving force behind the Nazi death camps - originated in the upper echelons of the British scientific community.
2019 • Science
As the director of one of a world renowned institute for scientific research -- the Institute for Advanced Study -- Robbert Dijkgraaf is a pioneer in the field of mathematical physics. This string theory specialist draws from his experiences to elucidate current advances in physics.
3/10 • Curiosity Retreats: 2014 Lectures • 2014 • Science
Did you know that bananas are berries, but strawberries aren’t? A lot of thought goes into classifying fruits and vegetables, and it all has to do with anatomy.
9 year old discusses the meaning of life, free will, alternate universes, and alien lifeforms.
2012 • Science
Flight takes more than wings. We need the right kind of air, the perfect materials cooked up over billions of years, and cosmic forces that are just right for us to leave the ground without tumbling off into space.
06/17 • Big History • 2013 • Science
