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The carbon dioxide content of the earth’s atmosphere acts like the glass in a greenhouse. Burned at the present rate, the resulting emission of carbon dioxide will have warmed the earth’s atmosphere by...
A history of heat engine development from Hero of Alexandria to Rudolph Diesel. Includes archival film of old machinery in motion including steam engines (Crofton, Youngs Brewery at Wandsworth), ships, early...
Reviews the experimental evidence for drifting continents. Discusses paleoclimatic evidence for latitudinal drift; paleomagnetic evidence from ‘apparent polar wandering’ curves; fossil links between...
The Gobi Desert of Mongolia is the world’s harshest places and its greatest dinosaur graveyard. An expedition from the American Museum of Natural History follows in the 1920s’ footsteps of one of the...
How have individual female scientists contributed to the advancement of science through time? To celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day (8 March 2011) and to mark the International...
Uses close-up photography, photomicrography, time-lapse photography and drawings to show the stages in the life cycle of a coelenterate, the freshwater jellyfish ‘Craspedacusta sowerbii’. Shows habitat,...
The panel, chaired by Colin Blakemore and consisting of Tony Marmont, Catherine Mitchell, Chris Morris and Jacqui McGlade, discuss alternative energy. How green are we prepared to be? Burning fossil fuel is...
The development of renewable energy is being encouraged by creating a protected market under the Non Fossil Fuel Obligation. With developers capitalising on this incentive, local planners must consider a...
A brief review of the earth’s history and formation and the elements of which it is composed. Describes how conditions on the surface of the planet eventually generated the living cell resulting in plant...
Illustrates aspects of the life cycle of the living brachiopods ‘Terebratulina retusa’ (Linnaeus) and ‘Crania anomala’ (Muller) from Scotland. The braciopods are shown in normal life position,...
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