L'homme de Cro-magnon était plus grand que no...

L'hélium est connu pour son extrême volatilité : c'est bien lui qu'on trouve dans les ballons gonflables ! De même, il a le pouvoir de rendre nos voix plus aiguës - si on l'inhale. Mais, quand il est à l'état liquide, il est peut-être même encore plus étonnant !<hr><p style='colo ...  Show more

Dans nos sociétés occidentales, ce sont les corps sveltes et sculptés qui sont surtout mis à l'honneur. Mais, dans d'autres contrées, les silhouettes plus enrobées sont plutôt mises en valeur ! Elles sont même carrément plébiscitées !<hr>

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As recently as 40,000 years ago we lived among humans from an entirely different species – Neanderthals. About the same time our species showed up, Neanderthals suddenly vanished. Just what happened to the other guys? Did our ancestors do something … bad? Find out in this classic ...  Show more

The NeanderthalsBrian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by hominids Alan Davies, Neanderthal expert and author Rebecca Wragg Sykes, and paleontologist and woolly mammoth expert Tori Herridge and learn just how misunderstood our ancestors have been. The image of the lumbering, ape lik ...  Show more

On today’s episode: Why is it ancient roman buildings are still standing? Self-healing concrete! What’s better than camouflage? Invisibility! All that and more today on All Around Science.

The story of humans began a long time ago.Three and a half billion years ago protein molecules floated around the ooze called the primordial soup. Then something happened and a molecule made a copy of itself.And then another copy and another. Soon these molecules arranged themsel ...  Show more