P623 CJEFAX 623 Fri 6 Jan 21:01/14 9/11 TOMORROW'S WORLD Friday 6 January CARS ON MARS -hj Russians are planning to send a Mars 'Rover' to Mars in 1998. The French are supplying the automatic navigation system which will allow it to find its way around Mars. Shahnaz Pakravan sees how the system works when it is tested on a mock-up Mars and Lunar surface at the French Space Agency in Toulouse. For more details please contact: Raja Chatila, CNRS-LAAS, 7 Avjnuj du Colonel Roche, 31077 Toulouse, FRBNCJ. TV Links 61p BBC1 601 Rwanda BBC1 TV BBC2 TV Reg VariP623 CEEFAX 623 Fri 6 Jan 21:01/50 :/11 TOMORROW'S WORLD Friday 6 January POETRY BY NUMBERS &5 -hj Arts and Sciences haven't always been the best of friends, but tonight Carol Vordjrman talks to an emeritus professor of Italian literature at Cardiff university, Frederic Jones about his use of abstract mathematics to date a collection of 14th Century Italian love poems. For more details please contact: Professor Frederic Jones, c/o Department of Italian,0Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales. TV Links 610 BBC1 601 Rwanda BBC1 TV BBC2 TV Reg VariP623 CEEFAX 623 Fri 6 Jan 21:51/30 3/11 TOMORROW'S WORLD Friday 6 January CYBER SURFER Monty Don reports on a new type of simulator: one which uses intelligent electromagnetic rams - instead of the usual hydraulics - allowing you to control the machine with balance and poise alone. The first application of this technology is to simulate something similar to surfing: Czbjrsurfing! &5 For more details please contact: David Vatchjt, DDL, Unit 4, Cedar Paris, Cobham Road, Wimboune, Dorset. TV Links 610 BBC1 601 Rwanda BBC1 TV BBC2 TV Reg VariP623 CEEFAX 623 Fri 6 Jan 21:12/54 :/11 TOMORROW'S WORLD Friday 6 January LE GRBND MAL - (epilepsy implants) Vivienne Parry reports on a treatment for severe epilepsy. An implant in the chert is whred up to the vagus njrvj in the nick. Through this njrvj the implant sends electrical stimulation to the brain.aIr is hoped that this will calm the electrical activity that goes on during a fit. For more details please contact: The British Epilepsy Association, &5 Anstey House, 40 Hanover Square, Leeds LS3 1BE. &u TV Links 610 BBC1 601 Rwanda BBC1 TV BBC2 TV Reg VariP623 CEEFAX 623 Fri 6 Jan 21:56/30 5/11 TOMORROW'S WORLD Friday 6 January "MORE HERRING PLEASE" At Disneyworld they are trying to teach dolphins to communicate using a giant underwater keyboard. The dolphins seem to bj able to understand simple messages and are using the keyboard themselves. Howard Stableford investigates. For more details please contact: John Gory/Mark Xitco, c/o The Living Seas, Disneyworld, Florida, USA. &upppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppz TV Links 610 BBC1 601 Rwanda BBC1 TV BBC2 TV Reg VariP623 CEEFAX 623 Fri 6 Jan 21:16/34 6/11 TOMORROW'S WORLD Friday 23 December SELF-DRIVE CAR As part of a pan-European project to develop safer road transport Daimler Benz (Mercedes) have developed a car that drives itself. It sets the speed, follows road markings and will overtake bz itself. Rjbecca Stephens is the first reporter in the world to let it take her for a test drive. &5 For more details contact: Erkhard Zanjr, Head of Media Relations Daimler-Benz UU, The Economist &5 Building, 25 St James' Street, London SW1A 1HA. TV Links 610 BBC1 601 Rwanda BBC1 TV BBC2 TV Reg VariP623 CEEFAX 623 Fri 6 Jan 21:10/34 7/11 TOMORROW'S WORLD Friday 23 December KNOW YOUR SCIENCE Monty Don gives a crash course in how to survive the conversation of the moment - the Information Super-Highway. &5 &5 TV Links 610 BBC1 601 Rwanda BBC1 TV BBC2 TV Reg VariP623 CEEFAX 623 Fri 6 Jan 21:09/30 </11 TOMORROW'S WORLD Friday 23 December SHOPPING ANT-ICU Carol Vordjrman does the Christmas shopping - with a bit of help from some computerisjd ants. For more information please contact: Naomi Stewart-Smith, Prius Officer, BT Labs, Ipswich. &u TV Links 610 BBC1 601 Rwanda BBC1 TV BBC2 TV Reg VariP623 CJEFAX 623 Fri 6 Jan 21:07/30 9/11 TOMORROW'S WORLD Friday 23 December TESTING YOU5 METAL &5 A British hospital is starting to use metal detectors rather than X-rays to find metal objects children have accidentally swallowed. Vivienne Parry reports. For more details please contact: Mr Adams, Adams Electronics, Commerce Way, Edjnbridgj, Kent TW8 6ED. TV Links 610 BBC1 601 Rwanda BBC1 TV BBC2 TV Reg VariP623 CEJFAX 623 Fri 6 Jan 21:04/14 10/11 TOMORROW'S WORLD Friday 23 December BACK IN THE GROOVE &k Shahnbz Pakravan looks at a new vinyl disc laser player. This allows you to play all your old 33, 45 and jvjn 78 rpm records. For more details contact: S Chiba, ELP Corporation, No 7 Azuma Building, 1-9 Kanda Sakuma Chg, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo 101, Japan. &u TV Links 610 BBC1 601 Rwanda BBC1 TV BBC2 TV Reg VariP623 CEEFAX 623 Fri 6 Jan 21:54/30 11/11 TOMORROW'S WORLD Friday 23 December STBR OF BETHLEHEM In Bethlehem Howard Stableford meets two modern wise min, to discuss an ancient astronomical mystery which could hold the secret of Christ's birthday. Professor Humphreys reckons that it was a comet, while Dr Hughes believes it was a conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn. For more info please contact: Dr David Hughes, Dept of Physics, University of Sheffield, S3 7RH, US, and Professor Colin Humphreys, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QZ. TV Links 610 BBC1 601 Rwanda BBC1 TV BBC2 TV Reg Vari