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Our Lives with Lead—Series 2
Uta Frith assesses the impact of the use and abuse of lead on humanity.
Silicon - The World's Building Block—Series 1
The key component of rocks, sand and materials from glass and concrete to microelectronics
Carbon - the backbone of life—Series 1
Why is all known life built on carbon?
And then there was Li—Series 1
The element that links the formation of the universe with the functioning of our brains.
Oxygen: The Breath of Life—Series 1
Trevor Cox takes a deep breath and tells the story of oxygen on earth and in space.
Mercury - Chemistry's Jekyll and Hyde—Series 1
The most beautiful and shimmering of the elements, the weirdest, and yet the most reviled.
