Science without the Boring Bits

Forget Boyle’s Law, polymer chains, cellular respiration and fields of force – here’s all the really interesting stuff you never learnt during science lessons at school.

But this isn’t fantasy, this is hard fact.

Fact: The stethoscope owes its invention in 1816 to a young doctor who was too embarrassed to put his ear to a young woman’s chest.

Fact: Since falling off a ship in 1992, fleets of yellow rubber ducks have provided invaluable data on the currents of the world’s oceans