The Story of Science: Power, Proof and Passion

7.2

2010•1h

Michael Mosley takes an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society's historical path

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Production

Seasons

6 Episodes • Premiered 2010

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1. What Is Out There?

How we came to understand our planet was not at the centre of everything in the cosmos.

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2. What Is the World Made Of?

How atomic theories and concepts of quantum physics underpin modern technology.

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3. How Did We Get Here?

Michael Mosley tells how scientists came to explain the diversity of life on earth.

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4. Can We Have Unlimited Power?

The story of how power has been harnessed from wind, steam and from inside the atom.

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5. What Is the Secet of Life?

The story of how the secret of life has been examined through the prism of the human body.

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6. Who Are We?

The sciences of brain anatomy and psychology have offered different visions of who we are.

Cast

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Michael Mosley

Himself - Presenter

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