Rulers
‘As long as you need to be able to draw a straight line, hopefully rulers will have a place in the world.’ In the final episode, host Nihal...
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A Brief History of Stuff
A Brief History of Stuff with Nihal Arthanayake explores the past, present and future of the stuff in your home – from bath toys to the microwave oven - and looks at how they helped science...
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Listen to A Brief History of Stuff, a Science & Medicine podcast by Science Museum Group. Stream 9 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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9 episodesMicrowave ovens
They quietly whir and ping away in our kitchens, heating up food and the odd cold cup of tea - but behind these unassuming boxes of plastic...
Tin cans
‘Food has been a really important part of our socializing as humans. It’s when we enjoy food together, we tell the stories and sit around a...
Menstruation products
Around 800 million people across the world are menstruating right now, using a variety of products and methods to deal with their blood. But...
Vacuum cleaners
Household chores are an unavoidable part of everyday life. For thousands of years a broom was enough, but by using the humble vacuum cleaner...
Microphones
Microphones have changed the way we hear the world. From the experiments of Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Alva Edison, through the birth...
Sticky tape
The wonder material graphene can be found in any pencil, but for years scientists couldn’t isolate its incredibly thin layers. Andre Geim an...
Bath toys
We know so little about the ocean, but a simple bath toy helped us understand it better. Dive into the story of what happened when 30,000 ba...
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