History

Hundreds of years of trial documents reveal our changing attitudes to violent crime.

A Renaissance alchemist pioneers feedback control.

His curious discovery, 200 years ago, foresaw our expanding universe.

Life, death, and Sputnik.

Debating a modern parable about waste and technology.

How the science of sound explained an ancient Peruvian oracle.

How the unlikely and unexplainable, strange and terrifying, spawned the age of science.