Title
|
Subject
|
Author
|
Synopsis
|
| Buckyballs open up a whole new
game |
Chemistry |
Robert Matthews |
The merest specks of soot are sweeping chemists
of their feet. |
| BSE-The Untold Story |
Biology |
Transcript |
Richard Uridge investigates the story behind
CJD and BSE. |
| Lost Chromosome |
Biology |
Robert Matthews |
The bizarre case of the chromosome that never
was. |
| Genetic Algorithms |
AI Computing |
John H. Holland |
Computer programs that "evolve" in ways that
resemble natural selection can solve complex problems even their creators
do not fully understand. |
| Survival of the fittest bits
|
AI Computing |
Rick L. Riolo |
A practical guide to creating a genetic algorithm.
|
| El-Fish |
AI Computing |
Elizabeth Corcoran |
How to raise a school of tempting software
toys. |
| What is an organism? |
Biology |
Brian Goodwin and Richard Dawkins |
Two fundamentally different ways of describing
organisms are opposed. |
| The Joy of Water |
Chemistry |
Peter Atkins |
The amazing properties of water. |
| Where do we come
from? |
Chemistry |
Robert Shapiro |
The origin and location of life. |
| Nothing But or Anything But?
|
Biology |
Marian Stamp Dawkins |
Science enhances it does not diminish. |
| Your Life in Their Hands
|
Biology |
Mark Porter |
The risk of being in hospital. |
| Helping Hand |
Biology |
E Jane Dixon |
Science gives nature a helping hand in Robert
Winston's Superhuman. |
| Superhuman |
Opinion |
Polly Toynbee |
Polly backs up Robert Winston,in quelling
fears over medical science,but wonders where it will all lead. |
| Age old story |
Gerontology |
James Kingsland |
Work being done on ageing and telomeres. |
| Gentle Persuasion |
Biology |
Douglas Fox |
Plenty of sex before conception could well
be the key to encouraging a woman's body to accept pregnancy. Discovering
the unsung virtues of semen. |
| Love Sick |
Biology |
Kathryn S Brown |
They say you go a little crazy when you fall
in love,but do they really mean clinically mad? |