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Donna Strickland and extremely powerful lasers
Donna Strickland on inventing extremely powerful lasers and winning a Nobel Prize
Unbottling the past
The discovery and recreation of an iconic perfume formula for Soir de Paris
California burning
Roland Pease investigates the growing fire hazard in California
ShakeAlertLA - California’s earthquake early warning system
The mobile app that will warn southern Californians if an earthquake is heading their way
From the Cold War to the present day—Chemists' Dirty Secrets
2/2 The role chemists have played in the development of chemical weapons
From the Crimean War to the end of World War Two—Chemists' Dirty Secrets
1/2 Andrea Sella looks at the role chemists have played in the development of weapons
Tracks across time—The Chase
4/4 Scientists race to save a set of 95-million-year-old footprints
Trouble in paradise—The Chase
3/4 How scientists are trying to eradicate rats and mosquitoes threatening French Polynesia
Back from the Dead—The Chase
2/4 The hunt for the Night Parrot: a fat, dumpy, green parrot that lives in the desert
Eye in the Sky—The Chase
1/4 SOFIA is a flying observatory setting out to study Titan, Saturn’s biggest moon