Science Show

December 2002

Saturday 28

• ABC on the Brain

Saturday 21

• Bionic Eye
• Dark Matter
• Adrenal Art
• A Museum for Everyone
• The Babbage Printing Machine
• Straw Dogs
• Science of Harry Potter
• Professing the Sky

Saturday 14

• Archaeology in the Antarctic
• Archaeology & the Hobbit
• The Science Year that Was
• Who's the greatest scientist?
• Darwin's Garden
• Make Mine Shade Coffee
• Surveying the crime
• Full Transcript

Saturday 07

• Dampier's Treasure
• Beware, Jellyfish
• Ask a Staghorn Coral
• Archaeology at Ground Zero
• Portrait of a Physicist
• Full Transcript

November 2002

Saturday 30

• Mad Cows & Mobile Phones

Saturday 23

• Origin of Dogs
• Robots
• Mapping Mars
• The Future of Space Travel
• Science Snack
• Dunking a Donut
• Full Transcript

Saturday 16

• Full Transcript
• Science Meets Parliament
• Towards the Knowledge Economy
• Super Steel
• Why Not Physics ?
• Philosophy & Physics
• Science Snack
• Fossils are Big Business

Saturday 09

• Publishing Pitfalls
• China's Fabulous Dinobirds
• Babies and Music
• Censoring Music
• Science Snack
• A Gene called NOX
• The Dark Lady of DNA

Saturday 02

• Australia's International Students
• England v Australia: Botanical Controversy
• Tracking Sharks
• Bush Rats
• Science Snack
• Newton
• Full Transcript

October 2002

Saturday 26

• The Future of Botany
• GM Potato
• Marsquakes
• Mission to Saturn
• Science Snack
• Archaeology in Jordan
• Archaeology in Melbourne
• Full Transcript

Saturday 19

• Prions in the News
• Physics Fraud
• Science & Disease Control
• Human Impact
• Cows in Clover
• Betty the Crow
• Smart Chicks
• Full Transcript

Saturday 12

• Global Weather
• Town & Country Weather
• Nobel Prizes 2002
• A Rock Called Peter
• De-Magnetising Ships
• A Short Walk in Flinders Ranges
• Moon on the Nullabor?
• Monitoring Meteorites
• Full Transcript

Saturday 05

• CSIRO - Up for Grabs

September 2002

Saturday 28

• Foxes, Deer & Riding to Hounds
• All about DNA
• Kangaroo - The Goldilocks Genome
• Epidural Simulator
• Oz Scientific Understanding
• Darwin Centre Opens
• Full Transcript

Saturday 21

• Science & Public Perception
• Genetic Fingerprinting
• Eat Your Brussel Sprouts
• Obesity
• Birds of Prey
• Sir David Attenborough
• Planet Science
• Music of Nature
• Full Transcript

Saturday 14

• Silent Spring

Saturday 07

• A Portrait of Sir Karl Popper

August 2002

Saturday 31

• The Future of the Brain
• Of Deer Antlers and Knee Joints
• Frogs in the Space Program?
• Listening to your Knees
• The Smell of Success
• Riding along on your pushbike, Honey
• Diet of Champions
• Full Transcript

Saturday 24

• The Future of the Brain

Saturday 17

• Science in a Suitcase: East Meets West - Traditional Medicine in Vietnam

Saturday 10

• Science in a Suitcase - Part 3 'Salt of the Earth: Salinity in Thailand and Laos'

Saturday 03

• Science in a Suitcase - Part 2 Rebuilding East Timor

July 2002

Saturday 27

• Science in a Suitcase - Part 1 The Hunt for a Malaria Vaccine

Saturday 20

• CSIRO
• The Human Genome
• Genes and the Brain
• GM or not GM
• Mars
• ET & the Bioastronomy Conference
• Full Transcript

Saturday 13

• Toumai - 'The Hope of Life'
• Snoring is a health hazard
• The Anthrax Letters
• Ironing out the Universe
• Weather Patterns and
  Energy Futures
• Antarctic Ice Cores
• Ice Cores and CO2
• Full Transcript

Saturday 06

• Jurassic DNA
• Underwater with Alvin
• Coral Spawning
• Tracking Whales
• Australian Synchotron
• Volcanic Crater Rain Gauges
• Full Transcript

June 2002

Saturday 29

• It's Only Human Nature

Saturday 22

• Peter Raven on our global future
• Identifying Whales - Dead or Alive
• Habitats for Murray Cod
• Stones and Bones
• Cognitive Engineering

Saturday 15

• Kakapo: A Good News Story
• Botanical Bank
• A Home away from Home
• Space Station 3D
• Uranium 238: Depleted Uranium
• A Theory of Everything
• Full Transcript

Saturday 08

• Science in Palestine
• Fox Eradication in Tasmania
• Bird Brains
• So, you want to set up a wildlife sanctuary

Saturday 01

• Tasmanian Tiger Reborn
• Science and Sustainability
• Conserving the Kakemega Forest
• The Secret Life of Lichens
• Tasmanian Weeds
• Museum Technology
• Virtual Reality
• Full Transcript

May 2002

Saturday 25

• Boycott Israeli Science - Yes or No
• Stephen Jay Gould, 1941 - 2002
• Life on Mars
• Superheroes Teaching Physics
• Possums in New Zealand
• Chicken Leather?
• Full Transcript

Saturday 18

• Getting off the Planet
• Gamma-ray Bursts & Black Holes
• Brain Cancer Research
• GM Cotton
• Seeds to Feed the World
• Graphology
• The Science of Wicked Sisters
• Full Transcript

Saturday 11

• To Bang or not to Bang?
• Marsupial Vision
• In Two Minds - Part 2
• Physics of the Didgeridoo
• Acoustic Monitoring
• Theatre of Science
• Full Transcript

Saturday 04

• The Future of Australian Universities
• World Bank Challenges
• In Two Minds - Part 1
• Flying Fox Sex
• Copenhagen
• Full Transcript

April 2002

Saturday 27

• Where did Polynesians come from?
• Scientific Journals
• How many insect species are there?
• Helicobacter
• Tracking Rosetta
• Wallabies, Seals and GM Milk
• Full Transcript

Saturday 20

• Update: Science Show 13.4.02
• Tracking the Antimatter
• LAPD
• Hydrogen Power
• Animal Minds

Saturday 13

• Scientific & financial misconduct

Saturday 06

• Stem Cell Research
• Water on Mars...or CO2?
• Centenary of Flight
• Birds and Aircraft Engines
• Eiffel, Marconi & Count Victor Lustig
• Tribute to Sam Carey and Peter Hunt
• Full Transcript

March 2002

Saturday 30

• Science, Sustainability
  and the Human Prospect

Saturday 23

• After September 11?
• Space Roundup
• Distant Galaxies
• Making the Most of the Daylight
• How to find a lost rocket
• New Zealand's Fossil Birds
• Full Transcript

Saturday 16

• Coenzyme Q
• Airborne Gravity Detector Wins Award
• Farewell Geoff Opat
• Smart Clothes
• Canada Goose
• Shearwater Migration

Saturday 09

• Red Hot Mommas to the Rescue
• Octopus Sex
• Birds & Dinosaurs
• Birds and Birdsong

Saturday 02

• Anti-Matter
• Bose-Einstein Condensate
• Sequencing the Malaria Genome
• The Death of Languages
• The Skeptical Environmentalist
• The Future of Nuclear Power
• Full Transcript

February 2002

Saturday 23

• AAAS Presidential Address
• "Bird Brain" can be a Compliment
• Interstellar Travel
• Undersea Worlds
• The New Biology of Rocks

Saturday 16

• Octopus
• Fish Discovery
• Noisy Fish
• Extinct Sea Lion
• Seal Camera
• Algae and Plankton
• Crabs & Lobsters

Saturday 09

• Circumcision, HIV
  & Population Growth
• The Origin of Photosynthesis
• The Origin of Plants
• The Importance of Mangroves
• Magic Tricks & Psychic Dogs
• Full Transcript

Saturday 02

• Billions of Jupiters
• Young Australian Scientist of the Year 2002
• The Future of Australian Universities
• Australian Research Council Funding
• Symmetry and Attractiveness
• Death, Hope & Sex
• Gravity Waves & Maritime Museums
• Sanyo Maru
• Full Transcript

January 2002

Saturday 26

• Australia Post Salutes Science Legends
• The Crisis in Venom Research
• Professor Robert Hanbury Brown
• Fine Wines and Fish Oil
• Science & Fiction
• Full Transcript

Saturday 19

• Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage & the 'Difference Engine'

Saturday 12

• Almost Like a Whale

Saturday 05

• Mauve: The Colour
  That Changed the World