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Voyage To The Planets
13 May 2010
This Australian documentary series of six episodes draws on the most up-to-date information we have about the solar system, its constituent planets and other objects encountered between the planets. The story is presented largely as a travelogue but it includes narration by actual scientists, video...
National Curriculum Year 5
Sea ice loss key to Arctic warming, study
29 Apr 2010
The story reports the conclusion made by two Australian scientists, Dr James Screen and Dr Ian Simmonds from the University of Melbourne, that the cause of the faster than expected temperature rises in the region are caused by the decline in sea ice. They explain this as due to the positive...
National Curriculum Year 10
Mystery Mountain Range Explained
10 Dec 2009
This article presents the geological formation of the Petermann Ranges in central Australia from the viewpoint of a scientist solving a problem. It provides a solution put forward by an Australian geophysicist Dr Alan Aitken.
National Curriculum Year 10
Southern Ocean Sentinel
29 Apr 2010
The Southern Ocean between Australia and Antarctica is a thermostat regulating the Earth's current climate. Scientists believe that it can be a sentinel, an early warning system, of climate tipping points to come. Tiny plankton and massive currents hold the clues to how rapidly the Southern...
National Curriculum Year 9
Future Of The Moon
16 Jul 2009
Scientists eagerly wait for astronauts to return to the Moon because they think Moon rocks may hold clues about the beginnings of life on Earth. The Moon has witnessed most of Earth's history and has vital clues about the beginning of life on Earth. These are recorded in the Moon's many...
National Curriculum Year 10
Earthshine
16 Jul 2009
Many of us wonder if there is life elsewhere in the Universe, if there are other Earth's orbiting distant stars, but what would one of these other Earth's look like from afar. A way to find out is to look at Earthshine, the light from Earth reflected back from the moon. The program is about the...
National Curriculum Year 10
Astronomers Find Earth-Like 'Waterworld'
17 Dec 2009
The article reports on the discovery of a planet outside our solar system that appears to be composed of three fourths water. This is an important find in the search of planets similar to Earth that might sustain life. The planet is too hot to sustain life as we know it but may have an atmosphere.
National Curriculum Year 10
Conversations: Tracy Chevalier
06 Apr 2010
Author Tracy Chevalier explains how Mary Anning inspired her latest book called Remarkable Creatures. Mary Anning was an unlikely fossil collector and self-taught palaeontoloist who lived at a time [first half of the 19th century] when people thought the Earth was 6000 yrs old and had no way, at...
National Curriculum Year 10
Volcano Helped Dinosaurs Gain The Upper Hand.
23 Mar 2010
The story describes the evidence supporting the theory that a massive volcanic eruption in what is now the Atlantic ocean 200 million years ago led to the extinction of half of the Earth's plant life and that in turn led to the rise of the dinosaurs at the expense of crocodiles.
National Curriculum Year 10
Dinosaur Extinction Caused By Asteroid Study
05 Mar 2010
The story describes how evidence from fossils, geology and studies of atmospheric chemistry is used by a group of 41 scientists to support one of two competing hypotheses about what caused the mass extinction 65m yrs ago of 70percent of known species on Earth [including almost all of the dinosaurs]...
National Curriculum Year 10
