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STORY ARCHIVE

STORIES A - Z

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1000 year drought

22 years of the Bionic Ear

A

Aboriginal Village

Aboriginal Village

Addicted To Ice

Addiction Vaccines – Can science win the war on drug addiction?

ADHD Alternatives

Aerial Orang Utans

Agrichar – A solution to global warming?

AIBO - one year on

Allergy Vaccine

An interview with Sir Alec Broers

An Unbreakable Code

Anarchy in the hive

Ancient Resurrection

Andy and the Space Shuttle

Animal Action: Bombina Frog

Animal Action: Desert Gobies

Animal Action: Fiddler Crabs

Antarctic Aliens

Antechinus Update

Anti-oxidant supplements

Are We Alone? (part 1)

Are We Alone? (part 2)

Arsenic Toenails

Artificial Shark Birth

Artist in Residence

Asbestos Cancer

Associate Professor Liz Harry

Asteroid Tsunami

Asthma - an alternative treatment

Attack of the Heavy Metal Invaders

Aussie Dinosaurs Discovered

Australia's Top Scientific contributions

Averting Armageddon

Awake In Surgery

B

Back to the Moon

Backyard Scientist

Baroness and the Brain

Battle of the Sexes - Part 1

Battle of the Sexes - Part 2

Beach Fingerprinting

Beef Antibiotics

Better Allergy Testing

Beverly Uranium Mine

Bi-Polar Disorder – The right diagnosis?

Bio Terror Detector

Bio Terror Detector Update

Bird Flu Surveillance

Bird Flu Vaccine

Body Hits: Against The Clock

Body Hits: Body Beautiful

Body Hits: Detox Devils

Body Hits: Face Value

Body Hits: Nasty Niffs

Body Hits: Natural Highs

Body Hits: On The Lash

Body Hits: Sensory Overload

Body Hits: Snack Attack

Body Hits: Sports Junkies

Bonobos – Making Love not War

Borneo Live Reef Fish Trade

Brain Chaos – BAR Monitor

Bridled Nail Tail Wallabies

Bubble engineering

C

C02 Tree Capture – how much carbon dioxide do trees really capture?

Caffeine Challenge

Canberra Firestorm

CANCER CLUSTERS

Carbon country update

Catalyst Extra: “People Power”

Catalyst: Carbon Bigfoot

Catching The Sun

Celestial Navigation

Charles Watson & George Paxinos

Cheating Chooks

Chemical Whales

Child Crash Safety

Climate Showdown

Coorong: the end of the line

Copenhagen (how close was Germany to the atomic bomb)

Corporate Psychopaths

Cosmetic Psychology

Council House Two – the eco-office block of the future

CRAY WEED LOVERS - BRENDAN KELAHER & MELINDA COLEMAN

Creation versus Evolution

Crocodile Tagging

Cross To The International Space Station

Crushing Critters

D

Daniel O'Doherty

Death Star - Part 1

Death Star - Part 2

Decisions under fire

Decoding The Platypus

Deep Brain Stimulation

Descent To Titan

Design By Fungus

Devil in the Detail

Devils Own Disease

Diamonds Forever ?

Dietary Supplements

Dirty Little Secrets

DNA - A Shadow of Doubt

DNA - A Shadow of Doubt

Do you have fungus on your CDs?

Dolphin Mystery

Don't Die Young : Bones

Don't Die Young : The whole body

Doping for Gold

Dr Angela Mole’s Secret World of Plants

Dr Naomi McClure-Griffiths, Astrophysicist

Dr Norman Swan’s Cholesterol Check

Dr Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

Dr. Andrew Harris - 2007 Eureka People’s Choice nominee

Dr. Bogle and Mrs Chandler - did Hydrogen Sulphide really kill them?

Dr. Francesco Pomati - 2007 Eureka People’s Choice nominee

Dr. John Church - 2007 Eureka People’s Choice nominee

Dr. Korneel Rabaey - 2007 Eureka People’s Choice nominee

Drought culprit

Drought Wheat – getting more crop per drop

E

Ear, Nose and Throat

Eat Fat Get Thin

Ediacara – Australia’s own geological period

Einstein’s tea leaves

Electron Microscope

Elliot the Dinosaur (Part 1)

Elliot the Dinosaur (Part 2)

Emotional Brain Pt 1

Emotional Brain Pt 2

Emotional Intelligence

Engineering The Perfect Wave

Eureka Award Winning Catalyst Producer : Andrew Holland

Eureka People's Choice Awards finalists - part 2

Eureka Prizes for Science 2009

Eureka Prizes: Carp

Eureka Prizes: Ethics

Eureka Prizes: Rehab Hand

Evolution River

Expanding Universe - Prof Paul Davies talks to Robyn Williams

Extinction - Western Swamp Tortoise

Eyes - windows to your health

F

Face Recognition

Falling Down: The Science Behind Staying Upright

Fembots (Robots)

Fighting fire with fire

Fire Ant update

Fish obsessed scientist, Bob Wong

Fish Schools – teaching the little tackers how to survive

Fly Like An Insect

Flying Fox Fight

Footprints in ash

Fountain of Youth?

Fractured Future

From the Toilet to the Tap

Fundamentals: Electromagnetic radiation

Fundamentals: Hotter than Hot

Fundamentals: Metamorphic Rocks

Fundamentals: Scaling down our Solar System

Future of Fusion

Future of the moon

G

Genetic Gold Rush

Genius of Junk (DNA)

Geosequestration

Giant Cuttlefish

Grand Daddy Fish

Great White Sharks

Greenhouse Debate

Greg Chamitoff And The ISS

Grey Nurse Update

H

I

Ian Galbally - 2007 Eureka People’s Choice nominee

Imaginary friends

Improving The Odds Of IVF

In Search of a Safe Cigarette

Information Overload

Intelligent Design

Internet Meltdown

Invisible Light

J

Jack the Ripper

Juggling Test Tubes

K

Kakadu Dolphins

Kelly Gang Armour

Knowing the enemy

Kung Fu Disciple, Dr. Karl Braganza

L

M

Magnetic Termites

Making the world's perfect Kilo

Maralinga anniversary

Marijuana & Schizophrenia

Marijuana Madness

Mars Discovery...Life On Mars?

Martian Microbes

Masking Telescope

Medical Miracles - Pt 1: Piggy Bank

Medical Miracles - Pt 2: Body Shop

Medical Miracles - Pt 3: Send in the Clones

Medical Miracles - Pt 4: Genetics Wrongs to Rights

Medicinal Cannabis

Mediterranean Diet

Meet “Palaeo-Artist” Dr. Anne Musser

Meet Associate Professor Alex Barratt

Meet Dale Bailey

Meet Dr Cathy Foley

Meet Dr Edwina Sutton

Meet Dr Melanie Fitzpatrick

Meet forensic anatomist, Meiya Sutisno

Meet Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty

Meet Phil Hansbro – the bloke in the soggy hat

Meet Professor Veena Sahajwalla

Meet Robert Hunter

Meet Sheree Marris

Meet taiko drumming environmental scientist, Stephen Joseph

Meet Toxicologist Geoff Isbister

Meeting Ben Hughes – Scientific wunderkind

Meeting Graeme Clark

Meeting Ian Frazer

Meeting Jenny Graves

Meeting Megan Fabbro

Meeting Michelle Simmons – working with atoms

Meeting Professor John Aitken

Meeting Sir Gustav Nossal

Meeting the Shine Brothers

Meeting Tracey Rogers

Melbourne Recital Centre

Memory Challenge

Meningitis - The Search For A Cure

Methane - The Forgotten Gas

Michelle Gerke Aids The Pain

Microbots – The Future of Robotic Medicine

Microgeneration

Millennium Seed

Missile Defence

Missile Defence Shield

Missing Mammals – Australia’s vanishing heritage

N

Natural HRT - magic bullet or clever con?

Natural Sequence Farming

Nature's Little Diggers

Neurological Gait Keepers

New Zealand Nuclear Veterans

New Zealand Rowi

News & Information

Northern Hairy Nosed Wombat

O

Ocean Acidification – The BIG global warming story

Origins of Life

Other Worlds, Distant Stars

Out of body experiences

Oyster Killer Revisited

P

Pain Clinic: Part 1

Pain Clinic: Part 2

Pain Clinic: Part 3

Pain of Rejection

Painting Forensics

Palaeo Revolution

Panda Granny - Jaye Allan profile

People's Choice Awards

Pipe Dreams (Geosequestration)

Planes,Trains and Autism

Planet Of The Rings

Planet Of The Rings

Plasma Thruster

Plasma Thruster – New Aussie design for space craft propulsion

Plastic Fantastic

Plastic Furnace

Poincare’s Conjecture

Polar Dinosaurs

Poo Shoe Robber

Positive Thinking

Possible Cure For Type 1 Diabetes

Predicting Alzheimer's

Prime Minister's Prize for Science - Boger Fluid

Professor David Karoly

Professor Harry Messel

Professor Penny Sackett

Prostate cancer screening

Prostate cancer treatment

Proteomics - Part 1

Proteomics - Part 2

Proteomics - Part 3

Pulsars and Gravity Waves

Q

R

Rabbit immunity

Random Drug Tests

Real Oil Crisis

RealTime Digital City

Regrowing the Thymus gland

Regular program suspended due to Iraq war

Regular programming suspended due to US terrorist attack

Rethinking the Brain

Return of the Rabbits

Reverend Robert Evans

Richard Jefferson

Road Kill Science

Robot biomimicry

Robots in Space

Royal Botanic Gardens

Royal Institution Australia

S

Saving the Kakapo

Saving the Kiwi

Sawfish Survival

Schizophrenia Update

Science Behind TV Viewing

Science of Kissing

Science of Surf

Science of Traffic

Science Through The Ages

Search for Ore at Broken Hill

Secret Sex Life of Wombats

Secrets of Saint Marys

Secrets of Saint Marys

Seeing is believing – the grey between black and white

Seeking Extra Terrestrial Light

Sex And Mathematics: With Clio Cresswell.

Sexual selection

Shulgin (Ecstasy)

Smart Wheelchair

Smashing Atoms In CERN

Smell and Schizophrenia

Solar Space Power

Songbirds Update

Space Commercial

Space Communications

Space Encounter

Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets: Episode 1

Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets: Episode Four: To the Edge

Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Plantes: Episode Three: Here be Giants

Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Plantes: Episode Two: Sun Burn

Space Retrospective

Space Suits for Mars

Sperm – the seeds of the next generation

Sperm Tolerance

Spider Venom Pesticide

Stem Cell Promise

Stem Cells in the Brain

Stem Cells Repair

Stroke Recovery

Supervolcano: The Truth About Yellowstone Part 1

Supervolcano: The Truth About Yellowstone Part 2

T

Taming the Problem Child

Tassie Fox - A Biosecurity Threat

Temptation Island for fish

Terrorist Trauma

Test Tube Tiger

Testosterone : Are You Man Enough

The A to Z of Therapeutic Cloning

The Atkins Diet Part One

The Atkins Diet Part Two

The Baby Marlin Mystery

The Biggest Squid

The Brave New Game

The California Condor flies again

The Consumers’ Guide To Carbon Conscious Shopping

The Cost of Living

The Day After Kyoto

The Double Life of Little Penguins

The Ethanol Alternative

The Extreme Sports Brain

The Female Reproductive Organs

The Flight of the Weta

The Flood Pulse

The Future Of Clothing

The Future Of Earthquake Prediction

The Future of Flight

The Future Of GM Foods

The Future of Sex

The Green House

The Immune System

The last Yangtze dolphin

The life saving qualities of Vampire Bats

The Male Reproductive Organs

The Man Who Saved a Million Brains

The Maths of Body Surfing

The New Science of Wisdom

The Perfect Australian Dummy

The Perfect Wave

The Puzzle of the Pyramid

The Rise of Slime

The Science of Business "How to make it Big”

The Science of Dating: “How to Catch a Mate”

The Science of Happiness

The Science of Raising Children: Pt 1

The Science of Raising Children: Pt 2

The Science of Raising Children: Pt 3

The Silent Flood: Part 1

The Silent Flood: Part 2

The Silent Flood: Part 3

The Silent Flood: Part 4

The Southern Surveyor –The Power Of One

THE SPACE ELEVATOR

The Stomach & Intestines

The Sun in Stereo

The Surfing Scientist - Marine Futures

The Time of Our Lives (Part 1)

The Time of Our Lives (Part 2)

The trouble with tests

The Truth About Vitamins

The Tuberculosis Resurgence

The Ultimate Mammal Family Tree

The Winning Edge

The World Of Asperger's

Thylacine Mouse

Thylacoleo "The Beast of the Nullarbor"

Thylacoleo Fossil Find

Time Travel - Is It Possible?

To Catch a Liar

To Drug, or Not To Drug...

Tomatoes fight Asthma

Too Cold for Cane Toads

Transit Of Venus

Transplant Hope

U

Under Keel Clearance - Port Hedland

Undersea Vents In The Pacific Ring Of Fire

Unforgettable memories

Universal flu vaccine

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Uranium Minerals

V

Vandalism and Pterosaurs

Very Large Telescope

Video Surveillance

Virtual Reality (VR) Psychosis

Vitamin D and Cancer

Voyage to the Seas of Mars

W

Walking With Beasts - Episode 1

Walking With Beasts - Episode 2

Walking With Beasts - Episode 3

Walking With Beasts - Episode 4

Walking With Beasts - Episode 5

Walking With Beasts - Episode 6

Water Recycling

Waterbirds in Crisis

Weak at the Knees

Weedy Seadragons

West Nile Virus

What has Darwin Done for Us?

What Is A Stem Cell?

What's the Matter with Antimatter?

Where are the clones?

White Tail Spiders

Why We Buy – the science of shopping

Wildlife Forensics

Willandra Footprints

Wollemi Rock Art

Wonders of the Brain - Part 1 "Brain Man"

Wonders of the Brain - Part 2 "Brain Man"

Wonders of the Brain - Part 3 "The Man who Slept for 19 years"

Wonders of the Brain - Part 4 "The Man who Slept for 19 years"

Workplace Stress – stopping the juggernaut

World Trade Centre Collapse

World's Oldest Mum

World's Oldest Mummies

X

Xenotransplantation

Y

Z

Zebra Fish - give hope to muscular dystrophy sufferers

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by Dr Paul Willis - Disaster movies depict the dangers of a volcano as red-hot rivers of lava pouring over unprotected villages or a rain of ash and boulders from a catastrophic explosion.