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Catalyst: Sports Motion
21 May 2009
Sports engineers from Griffith University in Queensland have developed a matchbox sized device for analyzing an athlete's technique. Existing methods often require athletes to be wired up to complex equipment which can limit their natural performance. Dr Maryanne Demasi reports on how this new...
National Curriculum Year 10
Robotic Mimicry
21 May 2009
Scientists at the University of California Berkeley are convinced they are offering a breakthrough in robot design comparable to the way the PC revolutionised computing. Their study of living organisms has offered insights which they have adapted to the world's first robotic cockroach. Dr...
National Curriculum Year 9
Mt Ruapehu
27 May 2010
Mt Ruapehu, New Zealand's deadliest volcano can kill with a fast-moving mud (lahar) capable of smothering a ski field in seconds. Dr Paul Willis reports on a project to develop a monitoring and early warning system for the mountain. Past catastrophic events and resulting changes to the landscape...
National Curriculum Year 10
Megafauna
20 May 2010
Reporter Dr Paul Willis visits Cuddie Springs, a rich fossil site in North Western NSW. The site is unique in that it provides a slice through time (about 900,000 years of prehistory). Dr Judith Field from Sydney University has been working this site for 20 years. The local Aboriginal community has...
National Curriculum Year 10
Eureka People's Choice Awards Finalists
09 Jul 2009
The program interviews and briefly describes the research of 3 finalists for the 2009 Eureka People's Choice Awards. Dr Amanda Barnard is a physicist from CSIRO materials Science and Engineering Victoria. Her discovery unlocks the potential to use tiny diamonds (nanodiamonds) for medical...
National Curriculum Year 10
Eco-Farming
02 Jul 2009
The program shows how the development of a computer land-management tool, the Catchment Management Framework (CMF), now allows natural resource managers to access all of the science that's been accumulated over the last 100 years. Soil scientists, plant scientists, ecologists and hydrologists have...
National Curriculum Year 10
Devil In The Detail
18 Jun 2009
Tasmanian Devils are threatened with extinction. They are afflicted by a unique type of contagious cancer that's never been seen in nature before. Unless the spread of the cancer can be stopped, they could be wiped out with devastating effect to Tasmania's ecosystems. New research from human cancer...
National Curriculum Year 10
Clever Cancer
27 May 2010
Dr Mary Demasi reports on a research project at the Garvan Institute in Sydney where scientists are studying a relatively new area called "epigenetics". This work with prostrate cancer shows that it's genes being turned on and off, not genetic change that controls the growth of some...
National Curriculum Year 10
Big Prawns
06 May 2010
The program provides information about the genetic manipulation of Tiger prawns though a selective breeding program. Using genetic fingerprinting and some clever marine aquaculture techniques, scientists at CSIR0 have domesticated the Black Tiger prawn and improved stocks.
National Curriculum Year 10
Climate Seals
05 Mar 2009
This second program in a series of two investigates how Australian scientists are using seals to gather data in the sea under the Antarctic ice shelf. This area is a blind spot that is inaccessible to humans and other remote sensing devices. The scientists are researching ocean circulation and the...
National Curriculum Year 10
