Abstract: For centuries' isolation, disease, feuds and disasters limited variation in Iceland's gene pool. In 1995, more people...
Abstract: Round, spiky marine creatures — these are sea urchins. When they're young, sea urchins have a completely differe...
Abstract: Sixty years ago, Japanese army scinetists experimented with an organic paste that glowed softly in the dark. They pla...
Abstract: Now the science of genomics has been drafted to serve in the war on killer diseases, including the bacteria that caus...
Abstract: Infectious diseases are caused by bacteria. But during the Middle Ages, millions of people died without knowing the c...
Abstract: In order to function normally, human body has to meet three demands: regular nutrition supply, processing of nutrient...
Abstract: American James Watson and Englishman Francis Crick connected many smaller discoveries, and built their famous model, ...
Abstract: If you come back in Australia 200 years ago we had a mass of little animals living in Australia. They weren't big k...
Abstract: Harmful microbes can enter our bodies via seemingly minor cuts or through contaminated food and water. Our bodies are...
Abstract: The water's edge, the first leg of an odyssey that extends from the junction of land and sea to the submerged edge of...
Abstract: Across the world, science is closing in on the genetic causes of schizophrenia. Hearing voices or hallucinations is a...
Abstract: There's a number of factors that influence both the surface ocean currents and the deep ocean currents. On the surfac...
Abstract: The landscape is shrouded in a blanket of snow. Snow crystals are tiny works of art created in the clouds. Look close...
Abstract: The lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and atmosphere are four interlocking pieces of the planet that together ...
Abstract: After sixty million years on Earth, the rhinoceros is on the verge of extinction. Soon elephants may exist only in zo...
Abstract: Last time on Wildlife Diary, crazy with hunger with barely enough strength to hunt, Melissa brings down the young imp...
Abstract: The fact that deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA, carried genetic information was known, but few thought it was the cent...
Abstract: Part of what makes us different one another as we grow older is that some of us stop asking the question "why" sooner...
Abstract: In this program, we'll first visit the wolverines. They are considered the most ferocious animals in North America. W...
Abstract: Biology is all around us. It's the science of living organisms — people, plants, animals or microorganisms. If you're...