Humans have been chemically modifying their world for far longer than you might think. Long before they had the slightest idea of what was happening chemically, they were turning clay into bricks, ...

The word “local” has become synonymous with sustainability, whether it’s food, clothes or the materials used to construct buildings. But while consumers can probably go to a local lumberyard to buy ...

Glass was one of the first materials humans made from scratch, and it changed everything that followed. In this episode, Professor Lewis Dartnell explains how glass made experiments, thermometers, ...