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To mark the 100th anniversary of the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen in 1895, this programme looks at Roentgen’s life, his laboratory where the discovery was made, and the development of...
Documentary revealing the legal, moral, ideological, political and historical aspects of worldwide terrorism through candid interviews with, amongst others, the Brighton Bomber and the most infamous ANC...
This programme focuses on the Nobel Prize winner Ahmed Zewail and his discovery of the Femto-second - the time it takes to make and break chemical bonds. Zewail claims this discovery to be the end of man’s...
This programme explores the role of Don Tomalia as a chemist and his discovery of dendrimers. Given a chemistry set as a boy, Don Tomalia developed a career at the Dow Chemicals Company where he discovered...
There are currently nine known planets in the solar system. Mathematics of planetary motion predicts a tenth, outer planet and observations of the orbits of Neptune support this theory. Looks at the...
Part 2: Demonstrates the determination of velocity, refraction, dispersion, diffraction, interference, polarisation and absorption of electromagnetic radiation. Sequences illustrate absorption by the...
Examines the discovery and development of understanding earth’s magnetosphere, particularly as affected by solar radiation.
James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Williams and Linus Pauling discuss the events and research leading to the discovery in 1953 of the double helix as a workable structure for DNA.*
A study of the Machiguenga Indians of Peru who believe all rainforest plants and animals evolve from their ancestors and therefore possess human souls and spirits.
The Arago cavern in the Eastern Pyrenees presents important prehistorical sites of the Riss and WüUErm epochs. During the summer of 1969, one of the oldest human mandibles known in Europe was discovered...
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