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Archaea

In Our Time by BBC

Apr 9, 202653:07Society & Culture

Misha Glenny and guests discuss one of the most remarkable scientific discoveries of the 20th century: the archaea microorganisms. In the 1970s the American microbiologist Carl Woese (1928-2012) realised that the tiny ba...

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Archaea is an episode from In Our Time by BBC. Misha Glenny and guests discuss one of the most remarkable scientific discoveries of the 20th century: the archaea microorganisms. In the 1970s the American microbiologist Carl Woese (1928-2012...

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Published Apr 9, 2026, 53:07 long, audio available.