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Past Decade Set To Be Warmest On Record
09 Dec 2009
The article provides an overview of high temperatures over the last decade in Australia and some other countries. An Australian scientist discusses the influence of El Nino on temperatures in Australia.
National Curriculum Year 9
Charles Darwin
14 Feb 2009
Alan Saunders and Natasha Mitchell co-host a discussion between a number of scientists and philosophers about the impact of Darwinism on our society as a whole, as part of a series of events celebrating 200 years since Darwin's birth. Individuals point out the links between philosophy and...
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
Catalyst: Grand Daddy Fish
10 Sep 2009
The program is a report about recent fossil finds that are the earliest examples of separate males and females in vertebrates and show copulation and internal fertilization as we know it today. This discovery helps complete some gaps in our understanding of the evolution of reproduction in...
National Curriculum Year 8
Fingerprints
28 May 2009
Fingerprints have been used by police for over 100 years to catch criminals. Dr Paul Willis reports on how advances in science are improving the expensive and dangerous practice of revealing fingerprints on paper. Students from the University of Technology Sydney were given the task of finding a...
National Curriculum Year 6
Finches
04 Jun 2009
Mark Horstman reports on the extraordinary sex life of the Gouldian Finch. Research by scientists from Macquarie University provides new information about mating behaviour that links colour, genetics and natural selection. This knowledge is being used in a program to increase populations of these...
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
Dr Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
27 Aug 2009
The program catches up with the winner of the 1999 Eureka Prize for Scientific Research, Dr Ove Hoegh-Guldberg. More than 10 years ago, he proposed that just a 1 or 2 degree rise in sea temperature would be enough to wipe out the Barrier Reef. At the time he was howled down by many in the...
National Curriculum Year 10
Food Bowl To Dust Bowl?
14 Aug 2008
While reports generally indicate there will be less water in the southern part of Australia in years to come, farmers are adamant they can adapt to using less water, changing their crops and how they use them. Alongside this are techniques that monitor how much water is needed to sustain the...
National Curriculum Year 8
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
