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    How Much Testosterone Makes You a Man

    How testosterone has been used and abused in history

  2. The Day The Earth Stopped Standing Still

    How a dying man's book demoted the earth and reconstructed the universe.

  3. Blood Banks

    How blood donation became segregated and associated with racial identity.

  4. Maxwell's Demon

    Philip Ball explains the thought experiment that niggled at physics for a century.

  5. Paul Ehrlich's 'Magic Bullet' and the Cure for Syphilis

    Naomi Alderman tells the story of Paul Ehrlich's 'magic bullet' and the cure for syphilis.

  6. Chaucer's Astrolabe - The Medieval GPS

    Chaucer's Astrolabe and how a renowned poet wrote the world's first scientific manual.

  7. Florence Nightingale: Statistician

    Naomi Alderman tells how Florence Nightingale saved lives with statistics.

  8. Einstein's Fridge

    What happened when Einstein decided to fix the fridge?

  9. The duchess who gatecrashed science

    Margaret Cavendish and the birth of the scientific method.

  10. The meteorite and the hidden hoax

    The riddle of the 19th century French meteorite that carried a secret for 100 years.

  11. How an eel sparked our interest in electricity

    How an eel sparked our interest in electricity

  12. Submarine for a Stuart King

    The magical world of Conelis Drebbel, inventor of the first submarine in 1621.

  13. Seeing is Believing - The Leviathan of Parsonstown

    Simon Schaffer tells of the astronomers who grappled with evolution long before Darwin.

  14. How Perkin brought purple to the people

    How William Perkin brought purple to the people in Victorian London.

  15. DNA's Third Man

    The third man behind the unravelling of DNA's double helix, Maurice Wilkins.

  16. The engine that ran out of steam

    How the engine that powered the industrial revolution nearly ran out of steam.

  17. The Bone Wars

    The extraordinary tale of feuding dinosaur hunters in America's Wild West .

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