Interviews about History

What does the oldest hunting scene tell us about ourselves?

Twenty years after Lawrence Jones survived an avalanche, he still goes skiing with his family every year...

20 years ago, Lawrence Jones was caught in an avalanche - and barely lived to tell the tale...

How do you cook custard properly?

And why urban living and low socioeconomic situations make it more likely to happen...

The museum specimen that yielded its DNA code 3000 years after it was harvested...

Tens of millions of years ago whales and dolphins evolved into the oceans. They lost genes in the process...

Flies with the “yellow” gene aren’t very lucky in love, and it's not down to behaviour...

Why tasty treats are more tricky to resist after a sleepless night...

Some are skeptical about whether recycling even works...

We see what you've been sending in

Why do they have half a million people's DNA?

It's quiz time! Who will emerge victorious?

Archaeologists have detected milk in bottles from thousands of years ago...

Back with Elizabeth Bruton at the Science Museum in London…

One of the world's most famous codes, and how it was broken...

There's no gene for cuteness, but here's the next-best thing...

What's the future for flat-faced dogs?

A century and a half of dog breeding has left its mark...

Mendel's laws were also used to support less savoury ideas...

In 1900, everything changed...

Genius doesn't spring from thin air...

Peter and Nadia face off against Livia and Duncan...

How did we discover the electron?