A little history of science

In the beginning

Needles and numbers

Atoms and the void

The father of medicine : Hippocrates

'The master of those who know' : Aristotle

The emperor's doctor : Galen

Science in Islam

Out of the darkness

Searching for the philosopher's stone

Uncovering the human body

Where is the centre of the universe?

Leaning towers and telescopes : Galileo

Round and round : Harvey

Knowledge is power : Bacon and Descartes

The 'new chemistry'

What goes up

: Newton

Bright sparks

The clockwork universe

Ordering the world

Airs and gases

Tiny pieces of matter

Forces, fields, and magnetism

Digging up dinosaurs

The history of our planet

The greatest show on Earth

Little boxes of life

Coughs, sneezes, and diseases

Engines and energy

Tabling the elements

Into the atom

Radioactivity

The game-changer : Einstein

Moving continents

What do we inherit?

Where did we come from?

Wonder drugs

Building blocks

Reading 'the book of life' : the Human Genome Project

The Big Bang

Science in our digital age.