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Nobel Prizewinner Joshua Lederberg is among those who believe that we have grown too complacent about infectious diseases since the development of antibiotics and the control of diseases such as cholera and...
Until recently, it was accepted that although the rest of the world was populated as early as 40,000 years ago, the first evidence of human activity in the Americas only dated from the end of the Ice Age...
Looks into claims that the mind can be improved by certain drugs - ‘nootropics’ or ‘cognition enhancers’, unlicenced drugs newly arrived in Britain. Asks whether they can offer successful therapies...
Examines social and scientific issues around the current cholesterol debate. Looks at Britain’s shameful record for heart disease and at the British diet of fatty food and full cream milk. Asks whether the...
Chernobyl Unit Four exploded in April 1986. The ruins of the reactor, which will remaing radioactive for more than 100,000 years, lie buried in the ‘sarcophagus’. Shows the inside of the sarcophagus,...
Looks at the problems facing optics company Carl Zeiss Jena and other scientific endeavours in the former East Germany. A year after German reunification the company faces bankruptcy. Asks if eastern...
Looks at the work of Horward Florey and Norman Heatley in the development of penicillin. Includes footage shot by Florey himself showing how penicillin was administered for the first time to soldiers in...
Examines the big bang theory of the origins and structure of the universe, which is now under threat. Astronomers are finding great clusters of galaxies, vast empty voids in space and they are unable to...
Investigates the harmful effects of passive smoking and and shows it to be a factor in lung cancer, heart disease, asthma, childhood cancer and more.
Investigates the phenomenon of sudden death, which occurs amoung over 100,000 Britons every year. Rather than a classic heart atach, the cause is a rapid onset of fatal electrical activity in the heart.
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