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Recounts efforts by scientists to save the ‘Partula’, a Polynesian tree snail, which has been driven to near-extinction in its natural habitats by ‘Euglandina’, a rapacious meat-eating snail...
Until the mid-1970s the only answer to serious peptic ulcers was surgery. The popular belief then, and now, is that ulcers are due to stress, which causes the stomach to produce acid. Barry Marshall...
Follows three teams of scientists in their attempt to map the ‘ripples in the universe’ discovered in 1992 - events following the ‘big bang’ that led to the formation of atoms, galaxies and...
Looks at theories on the origins of life. When did life begin and did it evolve on earth, in the sea or in space? In 1953, scientists thought that they had found the answer with a recipe for a primordial...
The Gobi Desert of Mongolia is the world’s harshest places and its greatest dinosaur graveyard. An expedition from the American Museum of Natural History follows in the 1920s’ footsteps of one of the...
For thousands of years scientists knew of only two types of carbon: diamond and graphite. In 1990 a third form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, C60, was discovererd and has revolutionised chemistry. Tells...
Examines ozone loss in the light of volcanic eruptions, which trigger climatic change. In 1992, people in the northern hemisphere were warned of the increasing risks of skin cancer and cataracts due to the...
Looks at Los Angeles: a city built around the car with choking smoke and at the auto industry’s response: electric cars and convoys of self-driving cars. Also examines the changes that the city might have...
Derek Jarman’s adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s Jacobean tragedy, which draws out a number of contemporary parallels. Out of distribution for several years, this film was released on DVD in 2010. DVD...
Investigates the mysteries surrounding the ancient stone statues on Easter Island in the South Pacific, asking who built them, how, and why, and enquiring into the fate of the civilisation that once...
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