Eye on Life

Ten percent of the world's food is eaten each year by insects. There are an estimated billion billion insects in the world, and some scientists speculate that with their superb ada...

Plant life cannot sustain all the creatures in the sea. Animal life can and does. In the sea the struggle to survive begins at birth. For many species only an enormous birth rate c...

One-seventh of the total land surface of the earth is desert, forbidding, inhospitable. Under the relentless sun it seems that nothing can live. Yet these desolate wastes often con...

Like man, animals are very aggressive. They fight each other for possessions, for power within the group, for territory. Unlike man, they seldom fight to the death. Scientists are...

The beaver builds a dam across a river: it changes the local environment, but it's small change compared to man. When he builds a dam, like the one at Kariba, the changes are monum...

Normal children are learning far more, and at a far faster rate, than most adults realize. Today psychologists are watching and learning how they do it. Eye on Life this week shows...

Only recently has science uncovered the 'DNA Molecule,' and 'broken the genetic code.' What does this mean? Riddle of Heredity traces the history of genetic investigations of chrom...