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Science Show - 2009-11-21 Spacesuits for Mars
A possible future Mars habitat has been constructed in the desert in Utah. It contains rooms and workshops, as well as an airlock with simulation spacesuits. James Waldie designs spacesuits. Current suits are big body shaped balloons filled with gas from the Earth´s atmosphere. The new approach is to use a skinsuit. Pressurisation is attained by way of physical compression. It´s like thermal underwear. This kind of suit may be used on missions to Mars. But what happens ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Science Show - 2009-11-14 Chemistry improves brown coal
In the third part of our Coal: beyond burning series, Nicky Phillips talks to Len Humphries, the CEO of Ignite Energy Resources, about a chemical technique his company has developed that can improve the efficiency of brown coal by more than 30%.
Scientists at World Economic Forum meeting
In 2007 The World Economic Forum launched its Annual Meeting of the New Champions. The aim is for business leaders from developing economies to meet with those from developed ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Science Show - 2009-11-07 Catch up on Coal
In the second part of our series Coal: beyond burning, Nicky Phillips presents your responses to last week´s piece on alternative uses for coal. We also hear from Len Humphries, CEO of Ignite Energy and George Domazetis from La Trobe University about their ideas for the future.
Multisensory dining and driving
Professor Charles Spence from the Department of Experimental Psychology in Oxford explains why we should stimulate all the senses to maximise our dining experience ( ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Science Show - 2009-10-31 Coal: beyond burning
Australia, like many countries, has vast resources of coal, but what can we do with it if we don´t burn it?
Why burn coal?
Could our vast supplies of Australian coal be used other than for running power stations? How about a chemical or plastics industry, or as a fertiliser on the land? The Science Show will review the options and ask for your input on the possibilities; the Prime Minister´s prizes for science announced this week.
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Science Show - 2009-10-24 Coastal erosion and king tides
Coastal erosion is a significant problem in Australia, as with many other nations, and it's set to get worse. Reinhard Flick is studying the problem at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California. But he's also an expert on king tides. He says they can be predicted well into the future, which is pretty useful to know if you live on the coast.
Business tackles Copenhagen
How to deal with science-driven upheavals in board rooms around the world? Why n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Science Show - 2009-10-17 Life on Mars
Scientists have being trying to find life on Mars for years. First they found water. Another glimpse of hope came when methane was detected, which scientists suggest could be produced by living microbes. Lewis Dartnell is studying the cosmic rays that beat down on Mars, to determine how far into the Martian surfaces scientists may have to dig to find life.
Planet formation
Sarah Maddison is studying how planets form. She´s looking at young planetary systems outside our own, w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Science Show - 2009-10-10 Nobel prizes
This years Nobel prizes saw molecular biologist Dr Elizabeth Blackburn become Australia's first Nobel laureate. Blackburn, and her colleagues Carol Greider and Jack Szostak, were honoured for their work with telomeres and cell divison. The research has not only revolutionised our understanding of ageing, but holds great promise for cancer treatment. Nicky Phillips and Sarah Castor-Perry give a full report of the prizes.
Climate change and wine
Australia is already feeling the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Science Show - 2009-10-03 Attitudes to climate change
Despite the science becoming clearer, a survey has shown up to about 20% of people are still sceptical about climate change; whether it exists, and if it does, whether human activities area related. These figures are from Britain. Scepticism is greater in the United States.
Solar thermal electricity
Sarah Castor-Perry presents an update on research into solar thermal electricity. Colin Duck describes a demonstration plant at the Liddell Power Station in NSW. Row ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Science Show - 2009-09-26 The beginnings of quantum computing
A quantum algorithm has been encoded on a chip for the first time. The approach is known as waveguide on chip. It was first proposed in 2001. Single photons of light are controlled and store information. Compared to an electron spin or a neutron spin, a photon doesn´t react with the environment and thus has very low noise. When used in computing, it increases the speed and power of the computer many times. The challenge has been in preserving the infor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Science Show - 2009-09-19 Muscular dystrophy - genomics raises hopes
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a degenerative disease that strikes around 1 in 3,000 boys every year. Symptoms appear when they are toddlers and most do not live beyond their early twenties. There is currently no effective treatment, but now some new work is giving hope. Professor Dame Kay Davies from the University of Oxford explains how they can trick muscle cells into thinking they are in the developmental stage so they produce utrophin, a prote ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Science Show - 2009-09-12 Naked in LA
We´ve been promised The Science Show would go naked in LA this week. While Americans have been spared the sight of Robyn streaking down Hollywood Boulevard, we join The Naked Scientists radio program for their jaunt through San Diego and beyond. When Chris Smith isn´t speaking to Fran Kelly on Radio National's Breakfast, or delivering lectures on virology to Cambridge medical students, he runs a popular science radio program heard on the BBC and online. In this edition of The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Science Show - 2009-09-05 Genius in Germany
This may be one of the greatest concentrations of massive IQs in broadcasting history. Put a `scintillation´ of Nobel laureates together with an `effervescence´ of young talented hopefuls and see what happens. David Fisher is in Lindau, Germany, as some of the top scientists of our age meet with up and coming researchers from around the world. Listen to the future on this Science Show special.
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Science Show - 2009-08-29 Emission from ships
Ships burn a very dirty fuel, with high sulphur content. When this fuel is burnt, the emissions contain large amounts of sulphur dioxide, and sulphates in the solid particles. Global sulphur emissions attributable to ships are close to 10%. Ships are supposed to burn cleaner fuel close to shore to protect people who live there. Gerardo Dominguez measures emissions from ships and has found specific isotopic signatures which allows them to be tracked.
Chemicals on the Gr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Science Show - 2009-08-22 LHC still on hold
Geoffrey Taylor discusses ramifications following the shut down of the Large Hadron Collider soon after it began operation in September 2008. In addition to projects on hold, extra design, building and installation has been required. Full current won´t be run in the first year and will be built up over time. Some of the many projects for the LHC will be to find evidence for the basic particles of matter. This will shed light on events immediately after the Big Bang, the p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Science Show - 2009-08-15 PDA controls energy use
Jack Singh demonstrates a program for a PDA or other mobile device which can monitor and control the use of energy at remote sites. It monitors flows and costs of energy use. The system then suggests, by way of a game, how to minimise the use of energy. Simply turning off devices on standby, such as television and computers can save around 30% of their power consumption.
Remote medical diagnosis uses mobile phone images
Cheap digital cameras can be used to measure a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Science Show - 2009-08-08 New songbird found in Laos
Iain Woxvold went to central Laos to undertake a biological survey for a mining company. There he discovered a new species of bird. It appeared bald. There were quite a few birds, and it´s been named the bare-faced bulbul. It seems to be the only songbird in mainland Asia. It is thought some animal and plant species are found only in very small areas, and may be threatened as habitats are changed by mining or other factors.
Great Barrier Reef birds in decline
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Science Show - 2009-08-01 Debate over net addiction
Brain scientist Susan Greenfield argues excessive computer use is not a fad. She describes people isolated from other human contact and ponders the consequences. Her major concern is the meaningless of it all and how the human brain may change as a result.
The Internet - a threat to women?
Laura is concerned women are being replaced by technology.
Ian McEwan on Darwin
Ian McEwan says Darwin fundamentally changed our view of ourselves and the natural world. He des ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Science Show - 2009-07-25 Hooked on the Net?
The video game market is big business, worth around $2 billion in Australia last year. The best games draw people into an exciting world where anything is possible; demons are slain, riches are made and worries about the real world left far behind. It´s great entertainment, but for a minority of players and net users who get hooked it can be a disaster. `Addicts´ deprived of computer access exhibit rage, distress and even violence. Should video game and internet `addict ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Science Show - 2009-07-04 The life of galaxies
Galaxies are not static. They are dynamic clusters of stars which are constantly changing. As galaxies grow, they can consume other galaxies. Indeed our own galaxy, The Milky Way is currently eating two smaller galaxies. Geraint Lewis describes the process of galaxy formation and what happens as galaxies collide.
The possibility of life beyond Earth
Is the universe made for it? Is the universe built for life? The origins of life remain a stubborn mystery. So was the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Science Show - 2009-07-11 40 years since Apollo 11 - first manned mission to the moon
The Science Show celebrates 40 years since Apollo 11 by replaying excerpts from the program broadcast 20 years ago in 1989! The program features a speech by US President, John F. Kennedy, and communications between astronauts and mission control. Peter Pockley describes the challenges of a radio broadcaster covering Apollo missions during the 1960s. Ross Taylor discusses what we know about the formation of the moon. Ian Grant and H ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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