The Story of Science: Power, Proof and Passion

1h

Documentary

Michael Mosley takes an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society's historical path

Episodes

Cast

What Is Out There?

1. What Is Out There?

1h

27th Apr 2010

How we came to understand our planet was not at the centre of everything in the cosmos.

What Is the World Made Of?

2. What Is the World Made Of?

1h

4th May 2010

How atomic theories and concepts of quantum physics underpin modern technology.

How Did We Get Here?

3. How Did We Get Here?

1h

11th May 2010

Michael Mosley tells how scientists came to explain the diversity of life on earth.

Can We Have Unlimited Power?

4. Can We Have Unlimited Power?

1h

18th May 2010

The story of how power has been harnessed from wind, steam and from inside the atom.

What Is the Secet of Life?

5. What Is the Secet of Life?

1h

25th May 2010

The story of how the secret of life has been examined through the prism of the human body.

Who Are We?

6. Who Are We?

1h

1st Jun 2010

The sciences of brain anatomy and psychology have offered different visions of who we are.

First air date

27th Apr 2010

Last air date

1st Jun 2010

Status

Ended

Type

Miniseries

Original language

en

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