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Examines the brain and its function in order to examine human consciousness.
Looks at computers as a means to improve the lives of disabled people by increasing their independence.
Looks at a new machine for digging tunnels, which can burrow safely through ground previously considered impenetrable.
Given that accurate measurements of time, length and weight are essential to society, discusses the units of measurement that emanate from the National Physical Laboratory, near London.
Examines the ageing process, asking whether it is inevitable that people age and die. Can it be slowed, allowing people to live longer and healthier lives? Looks for answers among the animal kingdom, in the...
Looks at the increasingly sophisticated crowd monitoring techniques being deployed by police and transport authorities, whose knowledge is contributing to improved standards of safety, efficiency and design.
Looks at new engineering techniques that have led to innovations in bridge construction. Engineers can now measure more precisely aspects of structure and loading.
Asthma is reckoned to affect 10 per cent of the world’s population, but it is a mysterious disease with no single cause. Possibilities for fighting the disease range from genetic research to a new type of...
A New Zealand flatworm that eats earthworms was carried to Northern Ireland and spread from there to Scotland and Denmark. Its predations cause a loss of soil fertility and make it a threat to agriculture;...
Notes the importance of potatoes in the human diet and the world economy, and looks at how scientists are using genetically engineering better, sweeter, and disease-resistant crops.
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