When it comes to big science, very few things are conclusively known.
From Quantum Mechanics to Natural Selection, what we have instead are theories - ideas explain why things happen the way they do.
We don't know for certain these are correct - no one ever saw the Big Bang - but with them we can paint beautiful, breathtaking pictures of everything from human behaviour to what the future may hold.
Profiling the key scientists behind each theory, 30-Second Theories presents each entry in a uni.
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