Abstract: The topic of this program is terrify — bio-warfare uses biological weapon targeted at civillians. It's happened befor...
Abstract: In the world’s most isolated continent of Australia, the botanist Robert Kooyman is engaging in his favourite j...
Abstract: Man has always been fascinated by animal behavior. In this program, Science Wonders will take you to Australia to dis...
Abstract: We think of a microchip as the brain of a computer. Now a chip can help diagnose diseases in your brain. Smoking may ...
Abstract: In December, 2002, many of those same researchers announced they had completed the second most important genome in th...
Abstract: Bald is beautiful. Try telling that to an estimated 50 million men in the United States with some degree of hereditar...
Abstract: It's August, and Japan's paddy fields have grown lushly. They're ready to produce the season's rice crop. The ears of...
Abstract: In the human genome, there are 23 pairs of chromosomes. For 22 of these pairs, a chromosome from the fahter teams wit...
Abstract: There are many different types of animals in Australia. Echidnas mainly feed on fat and juicy termites. The platypus ...
Abstract: Women who starve themselves to extreme thinness and sometimes to death may be driven as much by their genes as by soc...
Abstract: Notice the pretty lotus flower coming from a very humble origin of mucky muck, rises high above the water, untainted....
Abstract: If bees were gone we'd miss all that honey. The United States produces 200 million pounds of honey every year. But fa...
Abstract: At the beginning of summer, female lobsters lay their eggs. Lobster eggs are half a millimetre in diameter. A month a...
Abstract: From the largest organisms to those that are rooted in the ground, to those that fly, swim, float, dig, to those too ...
Abstract: It is so important to understand the mechanisms that underlie the regulation of sleep and circadian rhythms because s...
Abstract: Sixty years ago, Japanese army scinetists experimented with an organic paste that glowed softly in the dark. They pla...
Abstract: In search of a century-old tree, the scientists come to a deep valley on the Island of Mauritius. At a path thro...
Abstract: For centuries' isolation, disease, feuds and disasters limited variation in Iceland's gene pool. In 1995, more people...
Abstract: Gene detectives are tracking down a killer, one that has decimated our beautiful old oak trees. It's not a simple mat...
Abstract: This right here is a chimerical mouse. These mice were not so much born, as engineered in the university of Utah labo...