Why tasty treats are more tricky to resist after a sleepless night...
Interviews about History
Interviews on archaeology, anthropology, palaeoanthropology and the history of science...
We round off Christmas 2016 with a final rendition of A Partridge in a Pear Tree...
Fossil footprints reveal that some of our human-like ancestors could have been taller than we thought.
Would aliens necessarily have DNA, like we do?
Driverless cars could change the world- but what legal and ethical challenges do they bring with them?
Indira Raman offers her perspective on being a scientist who is a woman...
What do you study when researching skeletons that span millions of years?
The earliest stone tools were assumed to have been intentionally made by our pre-human ancestors but maybe there's...
Could the discovery of fire have been the cause of man's big brain?
Is the ability to believe in ritual and religion proof of a higher form of intelligence? Possibly not if Lee's...
Is our obsession with social networks and relationships the one thing that makes us special?
Could a bunch of computer programmers be the answer to the illegal wildlife trade?
How did the hospital become an integral part of society?
Fragments of ancient proteins are preserved in ostrich eggshells...
Think you know what the dinosaurs looked like? Think again!
Is it nature or nuture that determines our grades?
When it comes to exams, who decides what needs to be tested and how?
How much scientific research actually gets in to education policy?