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Dr Alex Veldman
15 Apr 2010
The program profiles the working life of Dr Alex Veldman who is based at Monash Hospital in Melbourne as a neonatologist for 60% of his time and as a scientist for 40% of his time. The program shows how he worked collaboratively and applied new scientific knowledge to overcome significant...
National Curriculum Year 9
Dr Craig Venter
27 May 2010
Dr Graham Phillips interviews Dr J Craig Venter just before he announced the first successful synthesis of a self-replicating bacterium. This process involved manufacturing a genome from scratch and then transferring it into a living bacterial cell. These custom-built organisms have the potential...
National Curriculum Year 10
Salinity Mythbusters
29 Mar 2010
The announcer describes briefly the situation of ground water salinity and then describes a theory in explanation put forward by a scientist. The announcer goes on to provide a counter theory put forward by another scientist . The announcer then interviews a practitioner and they discuss the...
National Curriculum Year 10
Catchment detox MB2903
13 Jun 2010
An interactive game where students can change the activities carried out on areas of land so that after 100 years they have a healthy economy and a healthy environment. Students make decisions about economic and environmental issues relating to water status, income and expenditure, production and...
National Curriculum Year 10
Catalyst: Stem Cell Ethics
08 Apr 2010
The program is a follow up to Making Life screened the previous week where the process of making pluripotent stem cells from skin cells was described and where the potential to use these IPS cells (induced pluripotent stem cells) instead of human embryos in stem cell therapies was discussed. This...
National Curriculum Year 10
Catalyst: Making Life
01 Apr 2010
The program describes the ground breaking work of Japanese scientists in creating an alternative type of pluripotent stem cell, not from embryos but from skin cells. Unexpectedly, Chinese researchers then have shown that these cells have the potential to create new life. The program provides an...
National Curriculum Year 10
Something In The Water [Parts 1 & 2]
15 Feb 2010
Two determined people with scientific backgrounds who, with the support of local oyster farmers, sought to find out what was poisoning the water in George's Bay in NE Tasmania
National Curriculum Year 10
Murray-Darling Basin Quiz
04 Nov 2009
This quiz highlights issues specific to the Murray-Darling Basin, but are examples of common Australian environmental problems resulting from human activities. This is a non-threatening activity that provides excellent explanations as feedback.
BOS NSW Syllabus Years 9 and 10
Baxter's Biotech Bargain Basement
12 Feb 2003
Deep in the backstreets a little scientist called Baxter takes orders for strange and terrible creatures; a bird's head on a sheep's back. Help Baxter get his orders right before his customers have to wait too long and get nasty. The real science behind hybrid animals follows the playing of this...
BOS NSW Syllabus Years 9 and 10
2024 Dreaming
20 Apr 2004
Explore options for houses, work, food and transport in 2024 in this multimedia presentation from Radio National. A useful resource for stimulating discussion about applications of science and implications for society and the environment as well as current issues and developments in science. Gives...
BOS NSW Syllabus Years 9 and 10
