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Theory of evolution
A report on the debate of Darwin's Theory Of Evolution
Synthetic Chemical Compounds
The development of synthetic chemical compounds
The inventor of the pill
The inventor of the contraceptive pill, the novelist and playwright Carl Djerassi
LIGO - going where no observatory has gone before
Report on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)
Savant Syndrome
Report on Savant Syndrome and the extraordinary mental abilities savants tend to have
Origins part one - Africa
Report on the beginnings of human evolution in Africa
Origins part two - the first humans
Part two of a series examining human evolution
Origins part three - cave paintings
Third programme in a series about human evolution
Gene therapy
Disappointments following the promising development of gene therapy
Spectrum - the moon versus the oceans
Comparing the amount we know of the surface of the moon to the surface of our own planet
Spectrum - golden rice
Report on the development of gene-altered rice
Organic Chemistry
Exploration into the work of organic chemists
The fourth dimension - more than meets the eye
Documentary which explores the theory of a hypothetical universe
The Future of the Forests
Report on how deforestation depletes, degrades and destroys the planet's ecosystems
The Future of the Forests - Climate Change
Examination of what climate change will mean for the world's forests
Report on the deforestation occurring in developing nations of the tropical world
Codex Alimentarius Commission
The Codex Alimentarius Commission, or food safety scheme
Disaster in Waiting? Mount Pelee eruption
British geologist and hazard expert Bill McGuire explores three natural disasters
Disaster in Waiting? The Vajont Dam
The Vajont Dam Disaster in Italy 1963 remains the worst dam disaster of all time
Megalithic expedition in Spain
Report from an archaeological dig at the Picos de Europa National Park in Spain
Disaster in Waiting? Coastal flooding in England
The most serious flooding ever to hit Britain happened in East Anglia in 1953
Mission to Mars
Paul Arnold continues his series about expeditions with probably the biggest one of all
Performance clothing
Can sports clothing and equipment make a difference to an athlete's performance?
Circadian rhythms
The importance of the human body's natural clock or circadian rhythms
The shape of the universe
The science of cosmology, which involves measuring the unmeasurable
Three years after Kyoto
A look at what has happened since the Kyoto agreement on climate change 3 years ago
Conservation and consumerism
A report on conflicting priorities in conservation
Life story - the Cambrian period
A look at life in the Cambrian period, 500 million years ago
Life Story - the Proterozoic era
A look at life in the pre-Cambrian era, more than half a billion years ago
Life Story - flying dinosaurs
How dinosaurs learned to fly
Living computers
Living computers - a combination of technology and living organic tissue