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The discovery of carbon nanotubes, made by Dr Sumio Iijima of NEC, Japan, is one of the most exciting advances of the last years of the 20th century. These tubes, some thousand times smaller thatn...
Professor Roy Anderson, Linacre Professor of Zoology and Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Epidemiology and Infectious Disease and Britain’s leading expert on BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy...
Biology operates at two levels: the large-scale level that we can see and the underlying microscopic level. Kuniaki Nagayama of the University of Tokyo describes the amazing way in which intermolecular...
A Royal Institution Discourse in which David Bomford of the National Gallery, London, examines the long tradition of applying scientific techniques to the study of works of art. He reviews past and present...
The discovery of pulsars - neutron stars which form when massive stars explode (supernovae) - took astronomers by surprise. Jocelyn Bell Burnell of the Open University describes their discovery and the way...
A Royal Institution Discourse in which Harold Kroto discusses the discovery of C60 buckminsterfullerene in 1985 in an experiment designed to unravel the carbon chemistry in Red Giant stars. The elegant cage...
A Royal Institution Discourse by Wiliam Klemperer looks at the hordes of molecules in the interstellar medium, seen during radioastronomical observations of our galaxy. The mass of molecules rising between...
Follows an Anglo-Russian scientific expedition to the bottom of the Atlantic to investigate hydrothermal vents, or ‘black smokers’, in the mid-Atlantic ridge.
Looks at science has transformed the art of winemaking in Australia and the USA into a highly mechanised and scientifically based multi-million dollar industry. Asks whether the European wine industry will...
A Royal Institution Discourse in which Akira Tonomura of Hitachi explains how, with the aid of holographic electron microscopy, we can see lines of force inside a solid magnet. The studies reveal a dynamic...
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