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Although Napoleon Bonaparte is regarded as a charismatic politician and a military genius who laid the foundations of the modern French state, he spent his last years in exile on St Helena deliberately...
1870-1950 is a period characterised by a succession of innovations with remarkable effects in everyday life from new sources of power, new modes of transport, new clinical techniques to a great leisure...
On 30 October 1938, the Orson Welles Mercury Theatre group enacted a version, by Howard Koch, of H.G. Wells, novel ‘War of the Worlds’. It was transmitted live at 8pm standard time throughout the USA on...
In the mid-19th century aluminium was a precious metal. By the 1930s it was a bulk material, used in aircraft manufacture, electrical cables, kitchenware and motor cars. By 1950 its applications were...
At the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge, traditional methods are being used to produce new winter wheats. The stages in this time-consuming process, from the crossing of likely parental types and the...
Looks at how scientists working on frogs established that the genes in the cell of an adult organism are present in the embryo, and that some sort of differential expression of the genes, with some genes...
Looks at two aspects of water supply - the provision of abundant quantities of clean water and the consequences of that water being available. The building of the Thirlmere Dam in the Lake District in the...
What makes cell growth go wrong? Dr Mike Waterfield, Director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in London, has been interested in the epidermal growth factor/receptor system and his research team...
Looks at how cells respond to molecular signals from outside. Features bacterial chemotaxis and reviews current knowledge of how receptors influence the flagellar rotation. Discusses growth hormones and how...
Investigates some of the recent biochemical and genetic advances in the understanding of biological nitrogen fixation. Experiments at Rothamsted in the mid-19th century proved that nitrogen was essential for...
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