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Chaos theory provides clues to the way the universe can seem both ordered and disordered at the same time, and is shedding new light as to which aspects of life can be predicted and which cannot.
Charts the rise of the incidence of lung cancer and other diseases associated with smoking in China, as the Chinese try to find ways to reduce number of smoking-related deaths. At the same time British and...
Examines the management philosophy of ‘just-in-time’ production, which breaks down the demarcation lines in manufacturing industries to increase turnover productivity and reduce costs. Features four...
Features two competing teams of scientists as they search for the ‘top quark’ atomic particle, one of the fundamental consitutents of matter. Based at CERN (European Centre for Nuclear Research) in...
Follows a year in the work of three American scientists, Dr Paul Marks, Dr Richard Rifkind, and Professor Ronald Breslow, who are developing a new treatment for cancer - hexamethylene bisacetamide or HMBA, a...
Looks at science has transformed the art of winemaking in Australia and the USA into a highly mechanised and scientifically based multi-million dollar industry. Asks whether the European wine industry will...
Charts the life of self-taught Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan from his roots in rural India to his work in pure mathematics at Cambridge University. Discusses Ramanujam’s relationship with...
The 159th Royal Institution Christmas Lectures series, given by Professor Gordon Roberts, surveying science and technology in the home.
Examines the science, technology and economics of supersonic and hypersonic air transport 20 years after the first Concorde flights and 50 years after the invention of the jet engine. With various...
Uses archive footage and interviews with bomber crews to examining the attacks using the bouncing bomb invented by Sir Barnes Wallis on the Ruhr Valley in May 1943. Suggests that details of the bomb fell...
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