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In Our Time: Science — 293 episodes

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1

The Mariana Trench

2

The Evolution of Lungs

3

Lise Meitner

4

Pollination

5

Slime Moulds

6

The Habitability of Planets

7

The Antikythera Mechanism

8

Wormholes

9

Bacteriophages

10

Mercury

11

Nikola Tesla

12

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

13

Hormones

14

Plankton

15

Albert Einstein

16

Jupiter

17

Mitochondria

18

Linnaeus

19

Paul Erdős

20

Tycho Brahe

21

Superconductivity

22

The Challenger Expedition 1872-1876

23

The Fish-Tetrapod Transition

24

The Electron

25

The Death of Stars

26

Homo erectus

27

Seismology

28

William and Caroline Herschel

29

Corals

30

The Manhattan Project

31

The Evolution of Crocodiles

32

Longitude

33

Pierre-Simon Laplace

34

The Late Devonian Extinction

35

Emilie du Châtelet

36

Eclipses

37

Alan Turing

38

Paul Dirac

39

The Evolution of Horses

40

Solar Wind

41

Hybrids

42

Dorothy Hodgkin

43

Kinetic Theory

44

The Evolution of Teeth

45

Pheromones

46

Aristotle's Biology

47

Emmy Noether

48

Venus

49

Free Radicals

50

Automata

51

Echolocation

52

The Proton

53

George and Robert Stephenson

54

Rosalind Franklin

55

Fungi

56

Cephalopods

57

Carl Friedrich Gauss

58

Feathered Dinosaurs

59

Bird Migration

60

Enzymes

61

Louis Pasteur

62

Pauli's Exclusion Principle

63

The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

64

The Kuiper Belt

65

Maths in the Early Islamic World

66

Parasitism

67

Johannes Kepler

68

John Dalton

69

Plasma

70

Zeno's Paradoxes

71

The Invention of Photography

72

Penicillin

73

Euclid's Elements

74

1816, the Year Without a Summer

75

The Neutron

76

Robert Hooke

77

Chromatography

78

Saturn

79

Michael Faraday

80

Circadian Rhythms

81

P v NP

82

Perpetual Motion

83

Extremophiles

84

The Science of Glass

85

The Earth's Core

86

The Curies

87

Dark Matter

88

The Photon

89

Behavioural Ecology

90

Brunel

91

Nuclear Fusion

92

e

93

The Sun

94

Robert Boyle

95

Photosynthesis

96

States of Matter

97

The Eye

98

Social Darwinism

99

Catastrophism

100

Complexity

101

The Microscope

102

Galen

103

Exoplanets

104

Pascal

105

The Invention of Radio

106

Relativity

107

Cosmic Rays

108

Water

109

Absolute Zero

110

Pitt-Rivers

111

Comets

112

Crystallography

113

Fermat's Last Theorem

114

The Cell

115

Game Theory

116

Early Geology

117

The Measurement of Time

118

Conductors and Semiconductors

119

The Scientific Method

120

Macromolecules

121

The Hippocratic Oath

122

The Origins of Infectious Disease

123

The Neutrino

124

The Age of the Universe

125

The Nervous System

126

Random and Pseudorandom

127

Thomas Edison

128

Women and Enlightenment Science

129

Logic

130

Imaginary Numbers

131

Pliny's Natural History

132

Antarctica

133

The Neanderthals

134

The Cavendish Family in Science

135

The Cool Universe

136

The Infant Brain

137

Mathematics' Unintended Consequences

138

The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 4

139

The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 3

140

The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 2

141

The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 1

142

Pythagoras

143

Radiation

144

The Geological Formation of Britain

145

Calculus

146

Ediacara Biota

147

Logical Positivism

148

The Whale - A History

149

The Vacuum of Space

150

Baconian Science

151

The Library of Alexandria

152

The Measurement Problem in Physics

153

The Observatory at Jaipur

154

Darwin: Life After Origins

155

Darwin: On the Origin of Species

156

Darwin: The Voyage of the Beagle

157

Darwin: On the Origins of Charles Darwin

158

The Physics of Time

159

Heat

160

Neuroscience

161

Vitalism

162

Godel's Incompleteness Theorems

163

The Music of the Spheres

164

Lysenkoism

165

Probability

166

The Brain

167

The Laws of Motion

168

Ada Lovelace

169

The Multiverse

170

Plate Tectonics

171

The Four Humours

172

Genetic Mutation

173

The Fibonacci Sequence

174

Oxygen

175

Antimatter

176

The Permian-Triassic Boundary

177

Renaissance Astrology

178

Gravitational Waves

179

Symmetry

180

Anaesthetics

181

Microbiology

182

Optics

183

Popper

184

Archimedes

185

The Jesuits

186

Mars

187

Indian Mathematics

188

The Speed of Light

189

The Poincaré Conjecture

190

The Needham Question

191

Humboldt

192

Galaxies

193

Carbon

194

The Heart

195

Astronomy and Empire

196

Immunisation

197

The Royal Society

198

Negative Numbers

199

Human Evolution

200

Relativism

201

Prime Numbers

202

Artificial Intelligence

203

The Graviton

204

Asteroids

205

Mammals

206

Magnetism

207

The KT Boundary

208

Renaissance Maths

209

Perception and the Senses

210

Dark Energy

211

Alchemy

212

The Cambrian Period

213

The Mind/Body Problem

214

The Second Law of Thermodynamics

215

Jung

216

Higgs Boson

217

Electrickery

218

The Origins of Life

219

Pi

220

Renaissance Magic

221

The Planets

222

Zero

223

Hysteria

224

Theories of Everything

225

Dreams

226

Rutherford

227

Cryptography

228

Lamarck and Natural Selection

229

Ageing the Earth

230

Infinity

231

Maxwell

232

Nature

233

Vulcanology

234

The Lunar Society

235

Memory

236

Blood

237

The Life of Stars

238

Meteorology

239

Chance and Design

240

The Calendar

241

Man and Disease

242

Imagination

243

Human Nature

244

The Scientist

245

Psychoanalysis and Democracy

246

Drugs

247

Chaos Theory

248

The Physics of Reality

249

Extra Terrestrials

250

Anatomy

251

The Universe's Shape

252

Nuclear Physics

253

Genetics

254

Oceanography

255

The Earth's Origins

256

Black Holes

257

Fossils

258

Quantum Gravity

259

Imperial Science

260

Mathematics and Platonism

261

Psychoanalysis and Literature

262

Evolutionary Psychology

263

Laws of Nature

264

Imagination and Consciousness

265

Chemical Elements

266

Human Origins

267

The Natural Order

268

Grand Unified Theory

269

Goethe and the Science of the Enlightenment

270

Information Technology

271

Climate Change

272

Time

273

Medical Ethics

274

Consciousness

275

Genetic Determinism

276

Pain

277

Intelligence

278

The Great Disruption

279

Memory and Culture

280

The Universe's Origins

281

Mathematics

282

Artificial Intelligence

283

Evolution

284

Animal Experiments and Rights

285

Space in Religion and Science

286

Language and the Mind

287

Psychoanalysis and its Legacy

288

Ageing

289

Genetic Engineering

290

Neuroscience in the 20th century

291

The Brain and Consciousness

292

Science in the 20th century

293

Science's Revelations