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Polybius Square

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The Telescope

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The Airplane

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The Robot

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The Rocket

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The Smartphone

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The Calling

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When Whales Could Walk

When Whales Could Walk

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Tuberculosis: The Forgotten Plague

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Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World

The Ultimate Rocket Fuel

Jim Al-Khalili recreates Konstantin Tsiolkovsky’s thought experiments to demonstrate why hydrogen is the ultimate rocket fuel.