Listen to the full series on BBC Sounds. Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden tested the plum pudding model. They aimed beams of positively-charged particles at very thin gold foil. These particles ...

The scientist John Dalton carried out a series of experiments. He concluded that all matter was made of tiny particles called atoms. He suggested that an atom was a tiny solid ball. He published ...

There is no shortage of excellent physical modelling synthesizers on the market: AAS Chromaphone, Baby Audio Atoms and Physical Audio Modus, to name just a few. (In fact, if you own Ableton Live ...