Science Show

December 2004

Saturday 25

• Deep Ocean, Deep Space

Saturday 18

• Deep Impact
• The Athena Project
• Stroke Research
• Exploding Trousers
• Extinct & Endangered Plants
• Hammack on Scotch Tape
• Crime & Prevention

Saturday 11

• Micro Penis Surgery
• Tabletop Nuclear Fusion
• Negative Refraction
• Hammack on Nanotechnology
• Hydrogen Fuel Conversion
• The Search for Planets
• How a Star is Born
• Ancient Pots Reveal Ancient Diets

Saturday 04

• What a Waste!
• As Old As You Feel
• FATE of the Landscape
• Hammack on Making Chips
• Making Waves
• Hypnosis - Fact and Fiction
• GM Mice

November 2004

Saturday 27

• Endangered Orang utans
• Politics and Sustainability
• Sandalwood
• Hammack on Security
• Laterality in Chickens
• Synaesthesia

Saturday 20

• Deep Ocean, Deep Space

Saturday 13

• Chimpanzee News
• The Cow's Lament
• Hammack on Coltan
• The Role of Science in Agriculture
• The Mimicry of Magpies
• Fake Fossils

Saturday 06

• The Genomes of Everything on Earth
• Bioprospecting
• Virtual Organs
• Hammack on the Voting Machine
• Dangers of Ballast Water
• Whale strandings

October 2004

Saturday 30

• New Species of Human
• Forensic Botany
• Biowarfare
• Hammack on the Clock
• Tuatara
• Dorothy Hill

Saturday 23

• Circadian Rhythms
• Our Disappearing Frogs
• Proportional Spacing
• The Universe Explained
• Antarctic Astronomy

Saturday 16

• Black Holes
• Babies & Stem Cells
• More Cheetah for Monarto Zoo
• Conversation with Mordechai Vanunu

Saturday 09

• Nobel Prizes 2004
• Diatom Genome Sequenced
• A Sturgeon called Stanley
• Arsenic Poisoning in Bangladesh
• Maurice Wilkins 1916 - 2004
• The Challenge
• Two Hats for the Chief Scientist

Saturday 02

• A Picture of the Future

September 2004

Saturday 25

• Predicting CJD
• Dust
• Environmental Magnetism
• Men, Women & Colour Vision
• 50 Years of Tobacco Monitoring
• Psychology of Gambling

Saturday 18

• Babies Prefer Pretty People
• How Maths could make you a Millionaire
• Were Australians the First Americans?
• D-CIXS on SMART-1
• Marriage in the 21st Century
• What Makes Butterflies Shimmer?
• Laboratory Animals

Saturday 11

• 2024 Dreaming
  Nine to Five Dreaming

Saturday 04

• 2024 Dreaming
  Dreaming of Food Futures

August 2004

Saturday 28

• 2024 Dreaming
  House of Dreams

Saturday 21

• 2024 Dreaming
  Beyond the Gridlock: An Impossible Dream?

Saturday 14

• Wanted: More Scientists
• 2004 Eureka Prizes
• The Role of Smoke in Germination
• What to do with Chicken Poo
• Highway to AIDS
• Fiddler Crabs form strategic alliances

Saturday 07

• Scientific American & Lysenkoism
• Launch of Brain Tumour Bank
• Oshkosh Air Show
• Waterless Sailing
• Ants - and more ants

July 2004

Saturday 31

• Tides & Algal Bloom
• Seamap Tasmania
• Isobel Bennett
• On the Snail Trail
• Hammack on the Tour de France
• Science in World War 1

Saturday 24

• Hawking and Black Holes
• FIV - Feline Immunodeficiency Virus
• Are We Neanderthals?
• Hammack on Texting
• Blood Flow and Cardiac Disease
• Crossing the Blood Brain Barrier
• Sailing With No Water
• Death & Decomposition
• Dr Joyce Vickery - Forensic Botanist

Saturday 17

• Gershwin & the Irukandji
• Thomas Gold 1920 - 2004
• Hammack on Plasma
• Bose-Einstein Condensate
• Smelly Science & the Science of Smell
• Fruit Barn Rage
• Hammack on Jefferson & Science

Saturday 10

• Cures from the Cone Shell
• Orangutan - Person of the Forest

Saturday 03

• Mission to Saturn
• Hammack on Private Space Flight
• Scramjet Travel
• Meteorite Strike?
• Orangutan - Person of the Forest

June 2004

Saturday 26

• The Science of Torture

Saturday 19

• The New Science of Networks

Saturday 12

• The Transit of Venus

Saturday 05

• How To Save Your Brain
• Transit of Venus
• Astronomical Treasures
• Innovation in Tissue Engineering
• You Can't Judge a Book by its Title
• Whales, Fish & Sealions
• Ice Wine
• New Zealand Wine

May 2004

Saturday 29

• Whales, Fish & Sealions
• Predatory Bacteria
• MABEL
• Innovation in Face Recognition
• Bill Hammack on Fahrenheit 451
• Life on Venus?
• 200 Years of Trains
• Robert Oppenheimer
• Georgina King

Saturday 22

• Dwarf Galaxies
• Hammack on the E-Vote
• Which Way Will You Vote?
• From Plastic to Girder
• Maisie Carr 1912 - 1988
• Bees

Saturday 15

• What's in the 2004 Budget for Science?
• Hammack on the Dreamliner
• Boeing Dreamliner
• Jets of the Future
• Hammack on Strollers
• Noise Reduction
• Hammack on Rapid Prototyping Machines
• Dr Georgina Sweet
• Full Transcript

Saturday 08

• New Genetic Elements Discovered
• Australian Academy of Science Goes Gold
• Cochlear Implant
• Plants to Detect Land Mines
• Hammack on Obsolete Technologies
• Full Transcript

Saturday 01

• Halides and the Ozone Layer
• Oldest mouse in the world
• The Ice Man
• Hammack on TiVo
• Teaching Physics
• Workers of the World, Unite!

April 2004

Saturday 24

• The Disappearing Plankton
• Science at Scripps
• Infrasound
• Science Funding & CSIRO
• Hammack on Velcro
• Vale John Maynard Smith
• Animals in Research
• The Sandman Gets Twitchy

Saturday 17

• Gravity Probe B
• Cricket Ratings
• Future Technology
• Hammack on Terrorism
• Dugongs & Dioxin

Saturday 10

• Research Crisis in France
• Rearranging the Calendar
• Return to Antarctica

Saturday 03

• Huntington's & Alzheimer's
• Hydraulics and the Clam
• Probiotics for Poultry
• Bill Hammack on Pompeii
• The Black Plague
• Drilling into the San Andreas Fault
• WildWatch Australia
• Full Transcript

March 2004

Saturday 27

• Tracking Epidemics
• Mind Sight
• Sleep Deprivation
• Clunies Ross Awards 2004
• Black Box
• Stem Cell Research
• Cheddar Man

Saturday 20

• A Ticket to Mars
• Worms in Space
• Mars or the Clitoris
• Guinness Research
• Full Transcript

Saturday 13

• The Science of Ancient Greece

Saturday 06

• Teaching a Lizard to See
• All About Dogs

February 2004

Saturday 28

• Ultrasound Operations
• First Equine Clone
• Oceans in the Solar System
• Coral Bleaching
• Guatemala
• Are Dogs Psychic?
• Full Transcript

Saturday 21

• Human Embryo Cloned
• Tuberculosis Vaccine Research
• Marine Conservation
• Global Warming a Reality
• Love, Marriage & Maths

Saturday 14

• Ruby Payne-Scott - Radio Astronomer

Saturday 07

• Predators in L.A.
• Stingers
• Wild Australasia
• Starwatch Starwheel
• Writings of a Plague Doctor
• Flu Vaccine
• Full Transcript

January 2004

Saturday 31

• Story Musgrave - Astronaut
• Life on Mars?
• Melanoma & the Common Cold Virus
• Frozen
• The Flying Monk
• Projectiles
• Saving the Planet

Saturday 17

• Science & Show Business Part 3 - Varieties

Saturday 10

• Science & Show Business Part 1
  Science and Credulity
• Science & Show Business Part 2
  PT Barnum

Saturday 03

• Serendipity in Science