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Experiments that Changed the World Episodes Available now

Otto Hahn's Nuclear Power
First broadcast in 2000. Nuclear fission and the foundation for nuclear power

Louis Pasteur's Milk
He discovered the principles of micro-organisms and bacteria

Nikolaas Tinbergen's Basic Instincts
The study of animal behaviour was developed by Nikolaas Tinbergen

Wilhelm Rontgen's Skeleton
X-rays allow doctors to see inside the human body

William Beaumont's Stomach Ache
A look at the tube that goes from one end of our body to the other

Joseph Priestley's Soda Water
Did you know two mice discovered oxygen?

Galileo's Acceleration Experiment
Galileo famously disproved Aristotle's theory on motion

Archimedes' Bathtub
Eureka! is famously attributed to Archimedes