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Late in 1996 archaeologists in the remote north-west Australia’s Northern Territory claimed to have found the oldest art in the world and evidence for the arrival of people in Australia three times earlier...
In 1963 human remains were found in a Cheshire peat bog, renewing interest in the archaelolgical investigation of Iron Age bog bodies. Archaeologists used modern forensic scienctific techniques to establish...
In 1969 research trials involving psychedelic drugs were banned following the Charles Manson killings, curtailing work in psychiatry relating alcohol and drug addiction treatment, schizophrenia and human...
Looks at the surgical attempt to separate the young Siamese twins Dao and Duan, who are 3-year-old Thai orphans. They share a pelvis and a third leg, their spines and lower colons are fused and each twin has...
Report on a sign language invented by children in Nicaragua who were unable to hear, talk or lip-read. American linguist Judy Kegl finds proof that the rules for language are built into our brains.
Although officially eradicated as a disease, the last samples of the smallpox virus, now held in the two top security laboratories in the USA and Siberia, are to be destroyed. But a debate has erupted over...
Looks at a virus derived from sewage that can kill bacteria - a bacteriophage, and the possibilities for using it against antibiotic-resistant disease-causing bacteria. Since the 1930s scientists in Tbilisi...
Fossils in a small meteoric rock discovered in the Antarctic have been cited as evidence that life once existed on Mars. Follows the detective story of rock ALH8401 and speaks to NASA scientists and their...
2: In the 1980s people in Britain ate BSE-infected food, and the first victims of a new form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human parallel to BSE, may have already died. Asks how BSE is transmitted, what...
In 1993 a fossil was unearthed from a Sussex gravel pit which turned out to be the shin of a half million-year-old human: ‘Boxgrove Man’. Archaeologists returned to the site in summer 1995 to investigate...
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