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5th Sep 2010

Science Down Under 2010


Chris Smith
A koala climbing up a tree in Cape Otway National Park, Victoria, Australia.

This week, we go back down under to explore the latest science from the land of kangaroos, bandicoots  and the world's largest radio telescope - the square kilometre array.  Chris goes on a tour of the universe from the comfort of the SciTech  Planetarium, meets Nobel Prize-winning scientist Barry Marshall and the fluffy marsupials under protection at Project Eden.  We find out why Australia is the perfect place to look further in to space than ever before, witness the battles between bee sperm and examine how tempting sharks with the scent of food can change their behaviour.

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A Ride Around The Universe

Chris touches down in Australia and steps inside a planetarium for the very first time. He talks to Carley Tillet of Horizon about spinning and space junk and makes a quick stop at South Pole's night sky...

(c) Ed Uthman, MD via Wikipedia

The Man Who Ate His Own Experiments

The man who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the bacterium that is responsible for stomach ulcers actually munched on a few of the bugs in order to find out what they do... Chris Smith talks to Barry Marshall...

(c) Materialscientist @ wikipedia

Generating Hydrogen from Solar Power

Embarrassingly for the average Aussie, as a nation, they're amongst the worst emitters of greenhouse gases on a per capita basis of any country in the world. So why aren't they making more use of all that lovely sunshine they enjoy? New research in Sydney could generate hydrogen using titanium ox...

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Project Eden - Rebuilding Australia's Native Fauna

Many of Australia's unique and endangered species are under threat, largely owing to feral animals like cats and foxes, that have been introduced from Europe. But now, a major initiative called project Eden which is based in the Francois Peron National Park in Shark Bay, Northwest Australia, has be...

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Seeing Farther than Ever Before - The Square Kilometre Array

The Square Kilometre Array will be the largest radio telescope device ever constructed - a strong contender for the title of World's Largest Scientific Device. But how will it work and what do we hope to learn from this enormous project? Peter Quinn, Director of the International Centre for Radio ...

(c) Waugsberg @ Wikipedia

Battles Between Bee Sperm

What have bees and gladiators got in common? Well, Boris Baer has been looking at their breeding habits and it turns out that bee’s sperm actually fight it out amongst themselves to determine who’s going to father the next generation...

(c) Mila Zinkova

Does Burley Change Shark Behaviour?

Burling (known as "chumming" outside Australia) is the act of allowing the scent of bait into the water to attract sharks and other animals for fishing, study and tourism. But does the ever present smell of food, and lack of ultimate reward, change shark behaviour? Flinders University re...




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