Making History

Life-changing inventions and discoveries

Inventing mathematics, summed up in 75 seconds

Who made 1 + 1 = 2?

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Who invented mathematics?

It's all summed up here

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Who invented the number zero?

The notable story of nothing

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Discovering the beauty in numbers

How mathematics structures our world

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."Albert Einstein

Reaching for the stars

The instruments that helped us understand the universe

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Unlocking the heavens

The amazing history of astronomical instruments

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The original space explorer

The amazing story of Galileo

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Toys in Space

From Buzz Lightyear to Smokey the Bear, these toys made the ultimate trip outside our atmosphere

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The Muslim Golden Age pioneers who unlocked the secrets of the heavens

Creating celestial globes and astrolabes

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Things are looking up

The amazing history of astronomy

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How Warren de la Rue captured an eclipse on camera

Combining the telescope and the camera

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The Al-Andalus knowledge revolution

Early inventions that revolutionized astronomy, mathematics, and medicine

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Two people who changed how we saw space forever

Astronomy Pioneers Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley

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The space craze

How astronomy took over pop culture

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Arabic in the sky

Astronomy a thousand years ago

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Our window on the universe

The Hubble Space Telescope

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Photos of Saturn from the Cassini spacecraft

Beautiful images changed the way we look at the dazzling ringed planet

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Hubble's greatest discoveries

From the Mystic Mountains to the Dragon galaxy

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The strange magic of Jantar Mantar

India's outdoor observatories

Spotlight Story

8 photos from space that will blow your mind

The final frontier on film

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Shining a light on the depths of space

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field

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How optical telescopes and other instruments have changed the way we see the universe

Astronomy at the Royal Society

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Astronomical Instruments

Uniting humankind with the sky

Answering the big questions

How do we know the universe is expanding?

This is gonna be big

How do we know black holes exist?

Dive down a discovery rabbithole

How do we know the Earth is round?

Facts to counter flatness

What we know about where it all began

Explore in augmented reality

The Big Bang narrated by Tilda Swinton

A world first with CERN

Inside the world of CERN

On the hunt for the building blocks of the universe

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The Hunt for the Higgs Boson

Find out how the revolutionary discovery of the Higgs boson was made here

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Exploring the strange world of antimatter

One of the keys to understanding our existence

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A stroll through CERN's underground spaces

Take a guided Street View tour of CERN's spaces normally hidden from view

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10 things you didn't know about CERN

Uncover incredible facts about Europe's laboratory for particle physics

ExploreThe Globe of Science and Innovation

ExploreThe Proton SynchotronCERN

ExploreThe Data CentreCERN

ExploreThe CERN control roomCERN

ExploreThe Large Hadron ColliderCERN

ExploreThe ATLAS Control RoomCERN

ExploreThe ALICE detectorCERN

ExploreThe CMS detectorCERN

ExploreThe ALICE experiment

Why particles matter

A closer look at what we're made of

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The particular history of particle physics

From small lab-bench experiments to gigantic machines run by people from all over the world

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Seeing ghosts

On the hunt for 'ghost particles' 1,000m underground at Japan's Super-Kamiokande detector

No mountain high enough, no river wide enough

Revolutionizing our ability to explore beyond nature's limits

Who invented the compass?

Navigate the truth behind the needle

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Crossing the seven seas

500 years exploring the Pacific ocean

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Into the Blue: Diving Equipment

Dive into the history and find out more…

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The First Known Map of America

Take a tour through Juan de la Cosa's chart

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The Skidoo

How the snowmobile re-invented winter

Where science meets magic

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Alchemy and the legend of the philosopher’s stone

Experiments in transforming matter

A spark of genius

An exclusive documentary with Cai Guo-Qiang

Pushing gunpowder to the limits

One of the most famous contemporary artists in the world experiments with an ancient invention

Knowledge is power

The enlightening history of electricity

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In the face of failure

How Thomas Edison's persistence led him to become America's greatest inventor

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The bright spark behind electric lights

Thomas Edison's legacy

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15 inventors who created electricity as we know it

The founders of General Electric

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Tesla's vision of wireless energy

How Tesla’s visionary idea remains a mystery to this day

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Revolution in the field

Tesla’s groundbreaking AC motor

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”Thomas Edison

The man who accidentally looked inside the human body

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Oops! How the x-ray was invented

A phenomenal chance discovery that went on to become an entire specialised discipline in medicine

What lies beneath?

Technology that lets us look beyond skin deep

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Take a closer look

At the art and science of the microscope

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Life through a lens

A look through microscopes and telescopes

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How we discovered what the world is made of

Popping the hood on life's structures with x-ray crystallography

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How to look inside a human

From microscopes to microbubbles

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Under the microscope

A glimpse into the world of biomedical imaging

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Revealing art secrets with science

Hidden details inside of Caravaggio paintings and antique violins revealed

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The forgotten world of anatomical models

Astonishing and sometimes eye-watering anatomical models

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Life from inside

The beauty of imaging

Make like a tree

Nature meets medicine

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Nature's pharmacy: the discovery of medicinal plants

Paving the way for breakthroughs that have saved countless lives

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The people and plants shaping modern medicine

Valuable plants and the extraordinary people whose discoveries have changed the world

"Remember that the limits of science are not the limits of imagination"Dr. Patricia E. Bath