Making Science with Tom Whipple
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 9 minutes
- Episodes
- 11
- Years Active
- 2025
Time-lords and the extra seconds
The start of the New Year in 2017 began in the usual way, with a countdown. But what happens when that countdown is eleven seconds rather than ten? In this final episode of the first series, Tom Whip…
The Tree of Life
Glow in the dark cocktails and radioactive health drinks
The Sunshine Dinner of 1904 in New York was known for its glow-in-the-dark theme, featuring illuminated decorations, paint and of course, drinks. But what made these cocktails glow? It turned out to …
The kilogram that lost its weight
How do you hide a lump of gold in plain sight?
How far can bull frogs jump? (And why it matters!)
Are friars electric?
In 1746, Antoine Nolie conducted an experiment with 200 monks to determine the speed of an electric current - by making the monks stand in a circle holding brass poles and connecting them to a large …
Islands of Ice and Straw
War, Stones and Metals!
When the Stone Age met the Bronze Age? It's time for Tom to explore the profound impact of alloys on a clash of Stone and Bronze Age technologies in battle. Who would have thought blending copper and…
Death rays and other would-be inventions!
In the first of the series of Making Science, Tom Whipple, Science Editor at the Times, explores the strange history of a 'death ray’ that supposedly promised to change modern warfare forever. In 192…