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The Story of Science: Power, Proof and Passion
2010
Last aired: S1 E6, Who Are We? · 2010-06-01
Michael Mosley takes an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society's historical path.
Season 1
E1
What Is Out There?
2010-04-27 · 60 min
Michael Mosley explores how history has shaped science. He looks at how we came to understand that our planet was not at the centre of everything in the cosmos.
E2
What Is the World Made Of?
2010-05-04 · 60 min
Michael Mosley explores how history shaped science. Here, he looks at how atomic theories and the strange concepts of quantum physics came into being.
E3
How Did We Get Here?
2010-05-11 · 60 min
Michael Mosley reveals how the history of all life on earth, including us, is connected to the long and violent history of our planet.
E4
Can We Have Unlimited Power?
2010-05-18 · 60 min
Michael Mosley shows how the most power-hungry generation that has ever lived has harnessed its power from wind, steam and from inside the atom.
E5
What Is the Secret of Life?
2010-05-25 · 60 min
How the secret of life has been examined through the prism of the most complex organism known, the human body, from anatomy to the structure of DNA.
E6
Who Are We?
2010-06-01 · 60 min
The twin sciences of brain anatomy and psychology have offered different visions of who we are. Now these sciences are coming together and revealing surprising truths.
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Michael Mosley
Michael Mosley