Past Programs
Programs by Date - 2007
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December 2007
Saturday 29
Saturday 22
- Japan's 'scientific' whaling
- Mesothelioma diary part 2
- Krill
- Camphor laurel - more than a weed
- The march of psuedoscience
- TermFinder - the jargon buster for students
- Italian caves reveal past climate
Saturday 15
- Corals and crustaceans in distress
- Changes in the ocean as waters warm
- Antarctic ice cores
- The Unnatural History of the Sea
- Tips to convince younger people to alter their behaviour
- Voyager 2 - way beyond Pluto, and still going
- Otiliths reveal where fish have been
- Lobsters on the increase in Tasmania
Saturday 08
- Mesothelioma diary part 1
- Tasmania's un-named lichens
- The Canon - A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
- Social behaviour in possums
- Associative memory as a stimulus affecting drug-taking and other behaviour
Saturday 01
November 2007
Saturday 24
- Explosives help reveal terror suspects
- Queen bees affect workers' brains
- Max Perutz - father of molecular biology
- How the ear converts sound to nerve impulses - Hermann von Helmholtz 1857
Saturday 17
- Australian universities don't rate a mention
- Endometriosis
- Rare amphibious fossils found in Tasmania
- Colony collapse disorder in bees
- Scientific racism
- DNA - not always a double helix
- Dr Egg and the man with no ear
Saturday 10
- New method of transplanting livers
- Hepatitis B - a call for wider screening
- Academy calls for increased funding for research and innovation
- Searching for a new principle of physics
- CERN and the large hadron collider
- Ionisation chemicals in the atmosphere
Saturday 03
October 2007
Saturday 27
- Coral mass spawning
- Innovation policy in Australia
- Mountain Pygmy-possums - effect of ski fields on genetic diversity
- Faster skis
- Work and depression
- Low adhesion chewing gum
- Hall of Minerals - Natural History Museum
Saturday 20
- New evidence of early human culture
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Cocaine on British banknotes
- Matt Ridley - science writer and banker
- The birth of the Universe
- Funding for scientific research
- Billingsley's Britain
- Time - does it pass?
Saturday 13
- Nobel Prizes 2007
- Prime Minister's Prize for Science 2007
- Nano-particles in consumer products
- Berry Billingsley's must-have gadgets
- Solar challenge 2007
- Imperial Racing Green
- Sputnik and the future of space travel and exploration
Saturday 06
September 2007
Saturday 29
- Archaeopteryx - the flying dinosaur
- Imaging skeletal remains
- How song birds learn their song
- Death of Alex the parrot
- The Prime Minister's Prizes for Science 2007
- The Royal Institution of Great Britain
Saturday 22
- Foot and mouth disease in Britain
- Countering terrorism in public places
- Recognising familiar faces
- Epigenetics - the new wave in science
- Contagious yawning and empathy
- The link between maleness and autism
- Recreating voice sounds electronically
Saturday 15
Saturday 08
Saturday 01
August 2007
Saturday 25
- Biofuels
- Carbon capture and storage
- Eclipse of the Moon 28th August 2007
- Atlas for the chicken brain
- Mapping cells in embryos
- The bee genome - studying changes over time
- The Eureka Awards 2007
Saturday 18
- Cane toad control
- Crisis for frogs
- GM techniques used to increase salt resistance in cereal crops
- Kevin Fewster leaves the Powerhouse Museum
- Foundational Questions in Science Institute conference
Saturday 11
- Scramjet
- Attracting students to science
- Antibiotics and intensive chicken farming in New Zealand
- Scepticism in science
- How trees react to increased carbon dioxide
- The end of slavery
- The DNA Shoah Project
Saturday 04
July 2007
Saturday 28
- Australian Synchrotron
- Robots
- The magnetic compass
- The Paper Project
- Personal carbon offsets
- Laura Molino - The C-word
Saturday 21
- Universe to expand forever says Gruber Prize winner
- Before the Big Bang
- New materials used in 'cloak' to shield objects from radar
- Peter Agre
- The Tibeten plateau - its creation and influence on the south-east Asian monsoon
Saturday 14
- Sun not responsible for recent warming
- Study of climate sceptics
- The Wellcome Collection
- Treating depression
- Starlings
- Paul Nurse - Great ideas in biology
Saturday 07
June 2007
Saturday 30
- Mark Lynas and Six Degrees
- Human activity and climate change
- Climate models and The Regional Climate Group
- Human responsibility and climate change
- Scientific responses to The Great Global Warming Swindle
- Global warming effects on ecosystems
Saturday 23
Saturday 16
Saturday 09
- The oldest modern humans in Eastern Europe
- Sydney's museums to incur large funding cuts
- Interview with a cane toad
- Laughter as therapy
- Beautiful Minds: the centennial exhibition of the Nobel Prizes
- Game Theory and A Beautiful Math
Saturday 02
May 2007
Saturday 26
- Royal Institution for Adelaide
- Improving the plight of caged animals
- Skin - treating burns
- Arizona State University
- Phoenix - an oasis city with more people and less water
- Clam shells reveal history of Colorado River delta
Saturday 19
- First DNA sequence of a marsupial: the South American or Brazillian short-tailed grey opossum
- Energy from hot rocks - an example of the hurdles for innovators
- Crude
- Flacco - Medicine and aliens
- Meniscus - shock absorbers in the knees and spine
Saturday 12
- Federal budget 2007
- Tree-rings
- Reclassification of the Hydatellaceae
- Carl Linnaeus
- Social behaviour in bees
Saturday 05
April 2007
Saturday 28
- Dragons - how the sex of the young is determined
- WA Chief Scientist Lyn Beazley - her work and aims for science in Western Australia
- A new planet in our galaxy, maybe with water, and life?
- Patrick Moore and The Sky at Night
- Wave power for Scotland
- Modelling the heart
- Seahorses - catches now regulated
- Flacco - The Dawkins code
Saturday 21
- Irukandji Jellyfish
- The world's oceans - getting warmer and more acidic
- Herbicides as a treatment for malaria
- Tasmanian devils threatened by facial tumour disease
- Australia's marsupial lion
- The Wollemi Pine
- Farming in Australia - the case for going native
Saturday 14
- Polar bears in Canada's Arctic
- Canada's glaciers - thinning and retreating
- New dinosaur fossil in Alberta
- The Ediacara of Newfoundland
- Simulating Mars on Earth
- The northern lights
Saturday 07
March 2007
Saturday 31
- Sri Lanka tsunami and coral poaching
- Computer crime
- How terrorists use the internet
- Two new Eureka Prizes in 2007
- Observational memory in birds
- Hiccups
Saturday 24
- Heavy metal pollution in aquatic sediments
- The gene for pain
- Space research in Arizona
- Missions to Mars
- The search for life on Mars
- New Zealand lahar
- Historical changes in sea level
Saturday 17
- Titan - a moon of Saturn
- Asteroid in near-Earth orbit - sampling mission for building blocks of life
- A pill for your petrol
- Melting polar ice, ice cores and methane
- Atmospheric changes in carbon dioxide and oxygen
- Ancient tools used by humans or animals?
- Colombus's first settlement
Saturday 10
- Increased CO2 uptake in Antarctic waters
- Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere - first signs of increase
- Reporting CO2
- The CO2 'debate'
- The role of stress in cell health and replication
- Air-conditioning
- Genetic mutations
Saturday 03
February 2007
Saturday 24
- Mars - were there ever habitable environments for life?
- Water flows in Antarctica
- The changing view on climate change
- The problem with Google
- Changing the world - Larry Page
- Helios - Overcoming barriers to efficient and scalable solar fuel generation
Saturday 17
Saturday 10
- Solar power innovator leaves Australia
- Ethanol part 2 - Cellulosic ethanol
- New slant on the hydrological cycle
- Protecting biodiversity in Western Australia
- Whale carcases and the bone-eating snot flower worm
