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One of a series of 13 short films about remarkable scientific discoveries by Nobel prizewinners and their colleagues. This programme looks at the work of three Nobel winners: Sweden’s Gustav Dalén makes...
PANDORA’S BOX is an award-winning 6-part series on the impact of science and technology on everyday life in the twentieth century, and their reflection in changing media images of science and scientists....
The biology and behaviour of Hawaiian ‘Drosophila’, - the so-called ‘picture-wings’ - showing the life cycle and male-male and male-female interactions. Discusses a natural fungicide that is a...
About chemical detectives - analysts with ingenious machines searching amongst the chemical fingerprints of samples provided by patients in a hospital and potential insecticides from an agrochemical research...
The overuse of insecticides damages the environment. One way of controlling insect pests is by the use of chemicals called sex pheromones. Males are attracted by specific pheromones appropriate to a...
Traces the development of a group of insecticides - the synthetic pyrethroids. Pyrethrum is a naturally occuring substance with insecticidal activity, although it is unstable in sunlight.In the 1940s,...
Shows what insecticides are, why they are needed, how they are applied and how they enter the insect. Using animated diagrams, shows the process of nerve transmission and the mechanisms of death in the...
Examines the control of insect pests, the problems of blanket use of insecticides, and the various alternative methods of biological control by insect predators and other means.
Shows the theory and practice of insecticidal fogging techniques in urban areas, particularly street fogging.
Describes various insect pests and the damage these can cause to stored foodstuffs. Shows the work of the Cooper Technical Bureau in developing and testing insecticides to prevent infestation of stored...
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