Interviews about History

We’ve seen the news stories in previous Olympic tournaments where athletes have been caught using performance enhancing...

How are sport officials cracking down on athletes using the wide range of drugs available to boost their performance,...

Most of us have heard the tales of ancient Greece and the majority of the time we just think of these tales as another...

Here's a question: The universe is a big place and if you only have a small number of telescopes with which to...

The Cambridge Science Festival lasts just two weeks, with a lot of the action compressed into a very busy weekend, but...

Is there really any science in Dr Who? What does Spiderman have to do with a gecko? And how are skateboarders...

The Ig Nobel prizes honour achievements that make people first laugh and then think. They celebrate the unusual,...

Is music just there for pleasure, or does it have a role to fulfil? We spoke to Dr Ian Cross...

Could we generate electricity from the energy we waste while walking? Professor Max Donelan has developed a way to...

One of the fantastic opportunities we had in South Africa was to visit the collection of fossils at Witwatersrand...

How long have humans been using fire?

Ben Valsler and Dave Ansell took some of their favourite Kitchen Science experiments to Manchester as part of the...

Kat Arney reports in with the latest news from the National Cancer Research Institute conference in Birmingham, UK.

Once a judge on Robot Wars, Professor Noel Sharkey told us about the part robots have to play in real wars...

We travel back in time to find out how the 17th Century people of York coped with the plague...

Every year, the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the BA, hold a festival. They go to a different...

We spoke to Professor Paul Halpern, author of "What's Science Ever Done for Us?: What the Simpsons Can Teach...

We spoke to Professor Paul Halpern, author of "What's Science Ever Done for Us?: What the Simpsons Can Teach...

This week, Chelsea finds evidence that Mexican food may not have changed much in hundreds of years, while Bob explores...

Here’s a puzzle that science has yet to solve; it’s something we all do, it’s contagious and even animals are affected...

We sent Ben Valsler to visit the newly opened Wellcome Collection in London, a place where science and art go hand in...

Joel Veitch of Rathergood.com with his suggestion for measuring risk using the unit the 'Curtain'.