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Rothamsted Radio
Park Grass is a grass experiment established over 150 years ago by Sir John Lawes. He set up several experiments to find out how crops grow, and if they needed fertilizer to help them grow better. It is divided up into plots given different fertilizers.
Gamelan Nyai Saraswati
This concert was part of the William S. Newman series, with the unassuming title of "Gamelan Gala". By concert time (8:00PM) on this chilly night, a very large line of hardy souls stretched around Hill Hall, all trying to get into what was, by now, a sold out concert.
Rothamsted Radio
There are at least 300 million cases of malaria each year and more than a million deaths (mostly children). One of the best ways of controlling the mosquitoes and therefore reducing malaria is by using insecticides.
Rothamsted Radio
2 million people die from malaria, which is carried by mosquitoes, each year", says James Logan. Understanding why some people are more attractive to others is the aim of his research.
Rothamsted Radio
Microorganisms are living things so small that we often need a hand lens or microscope to see them. They include bacteria, fungi, single-celled plants, single-celled animals, and viruses. Microorganisms are all around us, in the air we breathe, in the food we eat, on our skin and inside our bodies.
Rothamsted Radio
These worms live in soil. They eat leaves and litters that fall from plants and trees. The food is digested and then discharged as nutrients in the form of earthworm casts. This is also called vermicompost. Vermicompost increases the health of soils.
Rothamsted Radio
The two main crops are Miscanthus and Willow. Willow is a common tree in the UK, but Miscanthus comes from Japan and Korea. It is an unusual type of grass - it grows 3m tall in one year!
Rothamsted Radio
Its foundation dates from 1843 when John Bennet Lawes, the owner of the Rothamsted Estate, appointed Joseph Henry Gilbert, a chemist, as his scientific collaborator.
Rothamsted Radio
We grow plants such as strawberries, spinach and maize to eat. Insects also like to eat these plants, something we don t want, so ways of getting rid of these insect pests are invented. One way is to use predators to eat plant eating insects, this is called biological control.
