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Stephen Fry travels into the most remarkable place we know - our brain. The organ of knowledge and the one we know least about....

A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers....

Soil is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling hero. A saga of bombs, ice ages and civilisations falling. Of ancient hunger, modern sicknesses and gastronomic delight....

These 36 lectures bring you the answers that the latest scientific and archaeological research and theorizing suggest about human origins....

We know that what and how we eat is important. We also know that our brain performance impacts our overall health, our mood, our risk of anxiety and depression and our risk of cognitive decline and dementia as we age…

In one of the most exciting and accessible explanations of The Theory of Relativity in recent years....

Everything we now know about the universe - from the behavior of quarks to the birth of galaxies - has come from people who've been willing to ponder the unanswerable....

Albert Einstein was pursuing a dream far more ambitious than the theory of relativity. He was trying to find an equation that explained all physical reality - a theory of everything. Experimental physicist and award-winning educator Dr. Don Lincoln takes you on this exciting journey....

Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection inviting listeners to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses....

Australia is in peril. Do we truly grasp the impact of a warming planet – in particular, what it will mean for our sunburnt country? As temperatures rise, the climates of our capital cities will change. The sea will rise, and we will see increased fire and drought.

Kids love the ocean - it’s mysterious and unknown, home to monsters of the imagination and some of the most fascinating life forms on the planet. But while many grown-ups might love being by or on the sea, how much do we actually know about the world beneath the waves....

This audiobook is about luck, or more precisely, how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business....

With so little taught about the ancient Sumerians in our history books, alternative theories have emerged. This has led many to wonder, What is the true story behind the Sumerians and their otherworldly gods, the Anunnaki...

An addictively free-ranging survey of the massive impact that the domesticated ungulates of the genus Ovis have had on human history....

On 8 March 2014, a Boeing 777 travelling from Malaysia to Beijing with 239 people onboard disappeared. Despite the most expensive and expansive search in human history, it has never been found....

The American public's introduction to nuclear technology was manifested in destruction and death, with Hiroshima and the Cold War still ringing in our ears....

Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades....

What is human consciousness, and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists....

A captivating history of the universe - from before the dawn of time through the far reaches of the distant future....

Science ranges from the study of the universe itself to the smallest particles of matter contained within it - and everything in between....