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What’s more fundamental: energy or matter? After thermodynamics’ success, some scientists said everything is energy and got plenty of pushback.

Energeticism: Everything is energy

Why do some things glow under UV light? See how Albert Einstein used this puzzle to show light is both wave and particle.

What is Fluorescence?

A video co-created using the design fiction method, depicting a future scenario of smart public communications in climate change, designed to facilitate research and public discussions.

Climate Change 2040: A Future Shaped by Smart Systems

A video co-created using the design fiction method, depicting a future scenario of smart public communications in public health, designed to facilitate research and public discussions.

Public Health 2040: A Future Shaped by Data and Decisions

A video co-created using the design fiction method, depicting a future scenario of smart public communications in disaster response, designed to facilitate research and public discussions.

Disaster Response 2040: How Smart Systems Save Lives

A video co-created using the design fiction method, depicting a future scenario of smart public communications in cybersecurity, designed to facilitate research and public discussions.

Cybersecurity 2040: How Smart Systems Protect Us

Before atomic structures were known, scientists explained element properties by picturing them as knotted vortexes in an aether.

Vortex Theory of Atoms: Knot great

How does everyday life shape the global economy? This episode explores real world experiences and new ideas.

The International and the Everyday

Who really holds care together? From grandparents to children, caring roles shape work and society. Discover how everyday choices affect the global economy.

Ageing and Care

How does war shape everyday life? This episode explores survival, food access, and power in Palestine. Discover how daily life is affected and why it matters.

Food & War

How TV shapes what it means to be queer. Whose stories get seen and whose are left out. Discover how global media influences identity and visibility.

RuPaul's Drag Race and Globalisation

How do drugs and cannabis shape our world and laws? Explore the politics, economy and real impact behind them.

Cannabis and the State

Commuting shapes daily life and politics. Explore how public transport and electrification impact people and global supply chains.

Commuting & Sustainability

Your music says more than you think. Streaming tracks your habits and sells your data. Find out how it works and what it means for you.

Music Streaming & Surveillance

Explore life in Johannesburg and Dhaka, from busy markets to informal settlements. Hear two authors unpack how cities grow and change.

Chaos and Desire in the City

Fire can destroy, but it can also help plants grow. Discover how wildfire shapes plant life in this episode of That’s Science.

Wildfire Paradox: Why some ecosystems need fire to thrive

Do human embryos have gills? Scientists once said yes, proposing embryos pass through stages that mirror the species’ evolutionary history during development.

Recapitulation Theory: Your inner fish

Emeritus Professor Robert Miles discusses Radcliffe's second novel A Sicilian Romance.

Editing A Sicilian Romance

How did Sheffield’s grinders shape modern health laws? Discover how early research into deadly lung disease changed workplace safety.

Out of the Dingy Hole

What if disability shaped how we think about knowledge and power? Professor Dan Goodley explores how universities can move beyond labels and rethink belonging.

Disability as a driver of change: depathologising the university

Did all rocks form in a primeval ocean? Proponents of Neptunism believed so, dismissing volcanic phenomena. A better understanding of earth's history proved them wrong.

Neptunism: The ocean rocks

Can communities push back against shrinking freedoms? Explore how local groups resist power and what tools still work.

Asymmetric Urbanism

Discover how wampum belts record history, law and identity. Hear from Hartman Deetz on how these living documents are made and why they still matter today.

Indigenous Histories: Hartman Deetz discusses the Importance of Wampum Belts

Is the universe infinite, or did time itself begin? Once thought unchanging, more and more evidence found in the late 20th century suggested a radically dynamical universe.

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