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August 2008
Saturday 09
- Minke whales - mutual interest
- Green turtles in northern Australia
- Banksias
- Taxonomy
- Laura Molino - helium anyone?
- Animal farming and greenhouse gas emissions
- Kangaroos greenhouse emissions better than cattle
Saturday 02
July 2008
Saturday 26
- EuroScience Open Forum 2008
- Chinese archaeology and ancient civilisations
- Haptics
- Synthetic biology
- Great Southern Oceans - New Taronga exhibit opens
- New coral alga discovered in Sydney Harbour
Saturday 19
- Solar power in Europe
- Islands of the sub-Antarctic
- Exotic species invade warming southern waters
- Behaviour of ultracold atoms
- Revolutionary fibres using nanotechnology
Saturday 12
- Mars Phoenix update
- Malaysian and Indonesian peat swamps drained and burnt for palm oil production
- Trinidad's Pitch Lake
- Flacco - George Pell
- The Eden Project
- The expressive side of the face
- Physics website wins award
- New baits target feral pigs
Saturday 05
June 2008
Saturday 28
Saturday 21
Saturday 14
Saturday 07
May 2008
Saturday 31
- Phoenix lands on Mars
- Oldest fossil vertebrate embryo
- The hobbit - an update
- Midges as environmental indicators
- New method for making composite materials
- Vitamin C synthesis
Saturday 24
- Thylacine DNA resurrected
- Mantis shrimp sees circular polarised light
- Desert lizards
- Evolution of whales
- Environmental chemicals affect bird populations
Saturday 17
- Hydrogen produced from water using aluminium and gallium
- Natural burial
- Brains the pinnacle of efficiency in information processing and transmission
- Flacco - Speed carbon dating
- The Ignobel Prizes and Glenda Browne the 2007 Australian winner
- Ball lightning
Saturday 10
- Research funding in Australia
- Platypus genome revealed
- Amateur astronomy
- Imaging tools in astronomy and medicine
- Climate policy needed to reduce risks of the unknowns in future climate
- Flacco - Parthenogenesis
- The Loh down on science - Fine wine
- More expensive wine tastes better
Saturday 03
April 2008
Saturday 26
- Hydrogen production from algae
- Nuclear fuel pellets found in a German garden
- The Star Wars Enigma
- E-science
Saturday 19
- Galactic clusters
- Death Star
- Oscillating stars
- The Chandra observatory
- John Wheeler - a tribute
- Café Sydney - changes after energy audit
Saturday 12
Saturday 05
March 2008
Saturday 29
- Humans - built for long-distance running?
- Whitby fossils
- Hydrogen considered as a fuel for air transport
- BMW's Hydrogen 7
- Eris - a dwarf planet
Saturday 22
Saturday 15
- Solid light
- Quantum entanglement
- How chromosomes split in cell division
- Voyager spacecraft on the outer edge of the solar system
- Dawn - mission to asteroids Vesta and Ceres
- Phytoplankton monitoring under threat
- Bluefin tuna extinction threat
- Sharks extinction threat
Saturday 08
- Metal ions in proteins potential cause of disease
- Gut microbes
- New approach to building design and transport
- Low-cost robots for the production line and the home
Saturday 01
February 2008
Saturday 23
- Science under George W. Bush
- Science funding in Ireland and the potential and ethics of animal cloning
- Deep-sea corals
- The state of the world's oceans
- Atlas of the world's oceans and human impact
- Mars Rover Phoenix
- Engineering's big challenge in the 21st century
Saturday 16
- Balancing Nature 4 - New Zealand
- Census of Antarctic marine life
- Mesothelioma diary part 4
- New methods of refrigeration
Saturday 09
Saturday 02
January 2008
Saturday 26
- Balancing Nature 1 - Australia
- 18th century attitudes to Australian plants and animals
- Hot and cold echidnas
- Meltdown - tropical glaciers
