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Looks at robots designed for use in medicine and surgery, including one that sets the path of probes into the brain. Others are being planned to guide the surgeon’s drill in operations to repair broken...
Looks at the work of the Rural Development Commission, which, by designing simple, inexpensive, innovative technology to assist small firms in improving productivity, creating jobs and aiding expansion, may...
The pollution and waste resulting from over 200 years of industrial activity can now be treated by the selective use of microbes. Restaurant waste, acid water from disused mines and oil spills all respond to...
Looks at oilseed rape, which has become a major crop in England, and discusses its many uses. Genetic engineers hybridise it with alien species and materials, to produce plastics, oil and foodstuffs.
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.
Environmental damage is evidenced by poisoned land, infertile soil, and treeless hillsides swept away by storms. But with the right political will, land can be cleansed, goodness restored to the soil and...
Space technology is responsible for a range of products including Teflon, flexible heat shields, robotic tools, communication systems, and a telescope used also as a medical research tool for the study of...
Looks at computers as a means to improve the lives of disabled people by increasing their independence.
Wetlands - a term encompassing bogs, marshes, swamps and estuaries, once systematically polluted or destroyed, are seen to be economically significant as a source of employment, agriculturally rich, and...
Examines the reasons behind the return of cholera to South America in 1991 for the first time in 100 years, and its rapid spread throughout the continent. New economic and political factors are involved, and...
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