- Helen Scales
Melting glaciers are filling Himalayan mountain lakes too quickly, threatening tens of thousands of lives with colossal floods. Rising temperatures linked to global climate change are thought to be the cause of this accelerated melting.
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- Anne Holden
"Neanderthal" was once used as an insult; a term for a stupid, brutish oaf but who were Neanderthals, and how advanced was Neanderthal thinking ? Did they have advanced language like modern humans? Anne finds out.
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- Karen Smith
In 1953 Cambridge scientists Watson & Crick discovered the double-helix structure of DNA. 50 years later other Cambridge scientists such as John Sulston were key in decoding the human-genome - another fundamental breakthrough had occurred that might allow us to one day to personalise medicine.
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- Lucy Sandbach
As the world focuses on carbon dioxide, are more dangerous agents of global warming creeping up unnoticed? Lucy Sandbach investigates the dark world of nitrogen and how this common element is causing havoc with the environment.
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- Bob Bury
Discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen almost by accident, X rays are part of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes visible light. Bob Bury desribes how they work and can be used.
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- Martin Westwell
Ask any A level physicist why we see the colours that we do and they should have no problem with the answer. Martin demonstrates the principle of constancy - how the brain processes vision and changes colours - so what you think you see and what you actually see are different.
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- Nick Heath
Mention plastics and most people think of polythenes, perspex and other oil-based nasties that never break down. But now there's a new breed of plastics; they're biodegradable and based on potatoes and other starchy crops...
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- George Pendle
The fantastical, tragic and largely unknown story of John Parsons is one of the most intriguing tales to be found in the annals of modern science. Founder of the Jet propulsion Lab, and obsessed with magic. George Pendle investigates.
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- Dana Mackenzie
George Bush's plan to establish a permanent base on the Moon by 2020, and send astronauts to Mars by 2030, has drawn a less than enthusiastic reaction. Why should we go back?
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- Martin Westwell
A clinical trial testing an Alzheimer's Disease vaccine was dealt a crushing blow when some of patients showed side effects of brain inflammation. The trial was stopped and it looked like the great hope of an Alzheimer's vaccine was lost.
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