Deadly Science

Since the beginning of humankind gravity has ensured that we are firmly anchored to the earth. But humans are ambitious beings always striving for the next conquest and pushing the limits of what is possible. What made us take to the skies - and who were the dreamers who dared to defy gravity?

When the future seems just around the corner who can say who is the right person to grab it? Although the history of science and discovery has always favored the male gender many women have also fearlessly ventured into the exciting unknown.

Mother Nature is complex and powerful. She can be beautiful but she can also be deadly. It gives life but it can also destroy it. Understanding nature - its rules its intricacies - has been a task for millennia.

Off the beaten track on the fringes of the known universe in the furthest corners of creation secrets are waiting to be revealed. Under mounds of earth untouched for millennia in the depths of the Brazilian rainforest in the most inaccessible places we find the seeds of great ideas.

Advances in medicine are never easy and often controversial. Early scientists had to take great risks to understand the human body and make life-saving discoveries.

When a world-changing idea appears out of nowhere what happens to those brave enough to bring it to light? When disruptors trample the world and cry out to new understanding and science history remembers those brave visionaries who were willing to pay the ultimate price.