Series consultant Lister Sinclair is host on season's opener on which he explains how scientists approach their work and how The Nature of Things will present scientific items.
In cooperation with National Cancer Institute and Canadian Cancer Society, today's show explores results of years of lung-cancer research in Britain and North America.
Drs. Patterson Hume and Donald Ivey of University of Toronto explain value of atoms and care needed in handling them because of their radio-active properties.
What happens in a car crash - to car and to its occupants? What causes a crash? Can personality characteristics contribute to car accidents? Canadian writer Rita Greer Allen, who last year sustained a broken neck in a car crash
In this program origins and patterns of bird migration, and latest theories of bird orientation and navigation, are discussed with Dr William WH Gunn of Federation of Ontario Naturalists.
Baking bread may be a familiar process, but it is by no means a simple one. A very great number of fundamental chemical actions are demonstrated in baking of one loaf of bread.
In aftermath of industrial revolution, with scientific advances offsetting human control, human species has experienced an increase so explosive that grave doubts are now held about future food supply.