Science Show

December 2006

Saturday 30

• Celebrating 50 years of television

Saturday 23

• The Science Show versus God

Saturday 16

• Sea-level rise in Britain
• The effect of environment on obesity
• Electrolysis - enzymes as catalysts
• David Ellyard - Who Discovered What When
• Keratin as a bone substitute
• Laura Molino meets the intelligent designer
• Flacco - Unremarkable
• Jane Goodall - the story of Jo-Jo the chimp

Saturday 09

• Bird flu
• SARS - proteins identified and modelled
• Cryptococcosis outbreak
• Forensic pathology
• High temperature superconductors for mobile phones
• Science magazines celebrate
• Flacco - Wine
• Kurt Gödel

Saturday 02

• Cell research - combining human nuclei with animal eggs
• Genographic project and everyday reductions in carbon emissions
• The genetic basis for ability in sports
• Philosophy in the classroom - the teaching of thinking
• Training the brain - treatment for depression, suicide, or flashbacks

November 2006

Saturday 25

• Atmospheric carbon dioxide - the increasing threat
• The efficiency of cities
• Distributed energy generation
• Meerkats
• Space Dogs
• Telescopes - a 400-year history

Saturday 18

• Collective behaviour in animals
• Platypus exhibition
• The herbarium at London's National History Musuem
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Systems biology - The Music of Life

Saturday 11

• Nuclear reactors of the future - operation and security
• US attitudes to climate change
• Sunshade in space
• Global warming and economics
• Changing views to global warming
• How climate affected the rise of civilisation
• Chocolate - an ancient treatment for hypochondria?
• Gaze aversion - communication in children

Saturday 04

• The Science Show versus God

October 2006

Saturday 28

• Britain considers personal carbon quotas
• Green chemistry - plastic bottles
• Green chemistry at Monash University
• The Solar System - some definitions
• The Royal Society of NSW
• Brad Norman wins Rolex Award for whale shark conservation
• Dibblers

Saturday 21

• Depletion of world fish stocks
• The Prime Minister's Prizes for Science 2006
• Pyromaniacs

Saturday 14

• Ancient coral reefs
• Early human child
• Space tourism
• Ig Nobel Prizes 2006
• Teenagers' brains
• Synaesthesia

Saturday 07

• Nobel Prizes 2006
• Forum - Science as a career

September 2006

Saturday 30

• Recycling PCs
• Indian Ocean - influence on Australia's climate
• Plants, animals and atmosphere - predictions for the year 2100
• Pluto - it's no longer a planet
• The CERN particle accelerator
• Dinosaurs and the evolution of flowering plants

Saturday 23

• Asteroids
• Dolly the sheep - ten years on
• 1956 - developments in science
• Human occupation of Britain

Saturday 16

• Liquid explosives
• Babies, magic and conjuring
• Woolly mammoths and neaderthals
• The hobbit bones of Flores
• Telepathy
• Environmental issues in US politics.
• Climate change more urgent
• Materials science in sport

Saturday 09

• Celebrating 50 years of television

Saturday 02

• Gaia and accelerating climate change

August 2006

Saturday 26

• Eureka Prizes 2006
• Fields Medal 2006
• Dinosaur Unearthed
• Human Genome Project - legal and ethical implications
• Locked-in syndrome helped by virtual reality

Saturday 19

• Proteins and energy flow in plant cells
• Jonathan Nally - the size of the universe and a new definition for planets
• Ultra cold atoms
• Nerve stimulation helps paraplegics
• Bosawas Bioreserve Nicaragua
• Toxic venom of brown spiders

Saturday 12

• Bees prefer warmer flowers
• Heat conservation
• Not Even Wrong - the failure of string theory
• Formation of the solar system
• Mentors in science
• Banteng and the Torresian crow - a case of mutualism
• Flacco - superhumans

Saturday 05

• CSIRO - New guidelines allow researchers to speak in public
• Cosmos Bright Sparks
• Plate tectonics
• Flacco - transport
• How brains process sounds and do maths
• Lightning
• Full transcript 5/8/2006

July 2006

Saturday 29

• Bush vetos embryonic stem cell research - commentary by John Rennie
• TV kids and obesity
• Crocodiles - ancestor found in Australia and tracking them today
• Laura Molino
• Whales in the Southern Ocean
• Eureka Science Prizes 2006 - People's Choice Award
• Full transcript 29/7/2006

Saturday 22

• Space Shuttle Discovery
• Star shade for observing Earth-like planets
• Zebra finches and brain research
• Jane Goodall chimpanzee research
• Flock of Dodos
• Flacco - intelligent design
• Skinks
• Full transcript 22/7/2006

Saturday 15

• Face recognition
• Forensic science tackles crimes of today and mysteries of the past
• An Inconvenient Truth
• Tesla's 150th anniversary and positron physics
• Full transcript 15/7/2006

Saturday 08

• Stem cells and cloning
• Koalas suffer cancer-causing virus
• Technology for reading human genomes
• History of language and music in humans
• Gibbon song
• Flacco - world population
• Full transcript 8/7/2006

Saturday 01

• Computer games are not childsplay
• Krill biology and behaviour
• A World Without Waste - Part 4 - China

June 2006

Saturday 24

• Spam
• Blind mice used in human retinal degeneration research
• A World Without Waste - Part 3 of 4 - Japan

Saturday 17

• Super massive black hole at the centre of our galaxy
• Battle of the brains
• Sustainable transport and power alternatives
• A World Without Waste - Part 2 of 4 - The Philippines

Saturday 10

• Stromatolites confirmed as ancient fossils
• Analysing ancient molecules
• Canadians' attitude to greenhouse and conservation of resources
• Renewable energy alternatives for electricity generation
• New method for tracing waste
• A World Without Waste - Part 1 of 4 - San Francisco

Saturday 03

• Memory in children
• Sigmund Freud
• Chimpanzee genome sequenced
• Observing gorillas
• Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease

May 2006

Saturday 27

• Carbon dioxide uptake in the oceans
• Recovery of Carpentarian rock-rat population
• Ancestral penguin
• Australian to head Kew Gardens
• Reproductive biology of orchids
• New industrial coating technology
• Vetiver grass saves railway in Madagascar

Saturday 20

• Headless in Vanuatu
• Lapita burial ritual
• Planets around star HD69830
• Collective behaviour in animals
• The chance of taking a blink-free photo
• Australia's megafauna extinction
• Defining consciousness
• Captive breeding

Saturday 13

• Lemon juice and AIDS
• US national children's study at risk
• Kokoda with Heart
• Controlling pests in cotton crops
• How birds sing
• Reproductive biology of snakes

Saturday 06

• Clunies Ross Awards 2006
• Pseudopatients help train doctors
• Rewriting the Easter Island story

April 2006

Saturday 29

• The Selfish Gene 30 years on

Saturday 22

• Students link up with International Space Station
• Mallee Fowl breeding program
• Pleistocene extinctions
• Nerve cells wired for familiar images
• The Selfish Gene turns 30

Saturday 15

• Storing hydrogen more efficiently
• Living batteries
• Science and innovation in Western Australia
• The case for nuclear power
• Making oil out of waste
• Save the Earth - a game for all the family
• Mistakes and hoaxes on-line

Saturday 08

• Fossilised fish the missing link with limbed vertebrates
• Addressing food wastage in the US
• Encyclopaedia Britannica or Wikipedia
• Breeding program for endangered black rhino
• March of the penguins
• Schizophrenia

Saturday 01

• ABC time pips cause consternation
• Origami with DNA
• Natural fungicide discovered
• What's happening to our oceans?
• Fish oil and brain development
• Mars explorers - Spirit and Opportunity
• The disappearing teaspoons

March 2006

Saturday 25

• The centre of the galaxy
• Economics and brain physiology
• Where have all the teaspoons gone?
• Atacama Desert microbe
• Bush potatoes
• Galapagos tortoise

Saturday 18

• Vision loss and blindness
• La Nina's influence on weather and climate
• Papua's Garden of Eden threatened by climate change
• Frogs fake it to survive
• Science and politics

Saturday 11

• Methamphetamine use on the rise
• Salad at the South Pole
• Maths rules - proofs, Proof and Numb3rs

Saturday 04

• A planet beyond Pluto
• Growing salad on Mars
• Mars Science Laboratory
• Evolution, intelligent design or pastafarianism?
• Intelligent design is not science
• If my mom were a platypus

February 2006

Saturday 25

• Reports from the American Association
  for the Advancement of Science

Saturday 18

• The anthropic universe

Saturday 11

• Nuclear energy or renewables?
• David Attenborough takes on the insects
• Oldest American footprints

Saturday 04

• Infectious cancer in Tasmanian devils
• Nature Australia magazine closes
• Evolution of insects
• Counterfeit drug racket
• Unmanned aircraft

January 2006

Saturday 28

• New kid on the galactic block
• Space exploration
• New Federal Minister for Science
• Science on television
• Oxford Internet Survey
• The water cooler effect
• Lab in a lorry

Saturday 21

• Schadenfreude, sympathy and the sexes
• Stardust mission returns
• Speed of light
• Sequencing the dog genome
• Green-eyed tree frog
• Blind Mexican cave fish
• Closing the gap
• Criminal profiling

Saturday 14

• iHuman

Saturday 07

• Susan Greenfield and Bob Carr