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Looks at the fate of chimpanzees used for scientific experiments, now no longer needed. In the past, they were used to develop aircraft ejection seats, undergo space travel experiments, and test vaccines...
Looks at how special effects in motion pictures have moved forward during a century of cinema, culminating in today’s state-of-the art illusions, showing examples from ‘Titanic’. Discusses the use of...
In the hundred years since the first driver died in a car crash, cars have become safer but progress has come at a price. Archive material reveals how volunteers, experiments on live animals and even the...
Recently discovered fossils of feathered dinosaurs in China could validate the work of palaeontologist John Ostrom, who has been arguing for nearly 30 years that birds evolved from predatory dinosaurs....
Reveals how counter-measures used to protect troops in the Gulf War against chemical and biological weapons may have backfired, making some verterans serious ill. The number of British and American veterans...
Examines the nature of ageing and why the body’s cells die. Asks if ageing can be ‘cured’. With ‘Methuselah’ flies and mutant worms, scientists are beginning to understand the cells and genes that...
Examines the moral and scientific issues sourrounding the treatment of premature babies, as techniques of neonatal care become more sophisticated. Looks at the case of Kristen, alive after being born at 23...
Follows the progress of Dr Paul Zamecnick to treat disease and avoid damaging side effects by using DNA itself as a drug to block disease at its genetic base. Examines the long struggle against intense...
Tells the story of four men who orbited the earth in 1997 on board the ill-fated space station ‘Mir’. With both the future of manned space flight and their lives in balance, the astronauths and...
As the World Health Organisation embarks on a new plan to cut malaria deaths by half by 2010, traces the 100-year long fight against the disease, which may be responsible for over 1.5m deaths annually.
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