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Video podcast Tim Peake on the human history of space . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Tim Peake on the human history of space . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Archimedes heat ray sets fire to Roman ship

Archimedes’ greatest inventions and discoveries

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Video podcast Astronomy history: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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AI: An ancient nightmare? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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What was Albert Einstein's role in the creation of the atom bomb?

What was Albert Einstein’s involvement in the creation of the atomic bomb? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Is Oppenheimer guilty of perpetuating a historical myth?

Oppenheimer Is Nolan perpetuating a historical myth? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Still from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), directed by Steven Spielberg (Photo by Allstar Picture Library Limited/Alamy Stock Photo)

“Nasa has finally been dragged back into the UFO debate”: David Clarke on the history of flying saucers

A photograph of Albert Einstein looking into the camera

Albert Einstein: facts about his life, death, education and work

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Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, seen in 1975, would have been the leading candidate to be the first person to step on the Moon had the Soviets landed before the US (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

What if... The Soviets had landed on the Moon first and won the Space Race? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Historian Simon Schama, 2015 (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

Simon Schama “Humans are a marvel of ingenuity, yet we seem to exist in this great pond of primitive terror and paranoia” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The city of Hiroshima, Japan, a few days after the first atom bomb is dropped in August 1945. This clearly demonstrated the apocalyptic potential of the new weapon (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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The Manhattan Project: your guide to the building of the first atomic bomb

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Artificial intelligence: a modern advance or an ancient nightmare?

Jai Singh II (third from left) built astronomical observatories across northern India in the 18th century, incorporating knowledge he’d sourced everywhere from China to Portugal (Photo by Dinodia Photos/Alamy Stock Photo)

Why the scientific revolution was far from just a European phenomenon

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Mathematician and Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing played a key role in deciphering the Enigma code (Photo by Science History Images / Alamy Stock Photo)

What if... The Enigma code had not been cracked by Alan Turing and Bletchley Park? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.