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A series of four 30-minute programmes in which four volunteers undergo a range of physical and psychological experiments. Cut off from the outside world and confined to a laboratory for twenty-four hours,...
A recording of the Francis Crick Lecture delivered by Julie Ahringer at the Royal Society on 24 November 2004. Over the past 20 years it has been discovered that all animals have many of the same genes and...
An interview with Torstel Wiesel who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine 1981 together with Roger W. Sperry "for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral...
A talk by Mike Salisbury, producer of David Attenborough’s BBC series LIFE OF MAMMALS. Using clips and stills from the series he explains how the programmes were made and how sequences were filmed. - from...
Shows in detail the dance language of honey bees, the language by which they pass on information to other hive members about the location, distance and direction of nectar or pollen-rich flower patches....
Shows the principles and techniques necessary for aseptic microbiology work, with demonstrations in a university laboratory setting and three industrial settings. In each situation, scientists work in...
Chris Freeman, the founder and first director of the Science Policy Research Unit, introduces John Bernal, the father of the protein crystallography techniques that enabled the double helix structure of DNA...
John Maynard Smith describes the way flight developed in the animal kingdom: the fossil record indicates that the long tails which stabilised the flight of the first birds evolved into shorter, less stable...
Looks at reflex actions and learned reactions in five stages, using animal examples: 1) exploring stimuli - reactions of piglets to artificial udders; 2) detection - use of sight by battery hens to explore...
Professor Patricia Hannah Clarke’s main research was on bacterial enzymes: their evolution and properties, and producing and purifying them for industrial use. She was also involved in developments in...
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