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Saturday 14 Mar 2015
Granzyme B plays an important role in normal skin. But it accumulates after exposure to UV light damaging skin proteins resulting in wrinkles and the breakdown of skin structure.
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GeoSim allows navigation within a city model displaying intricate detail.
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The isotope technetium is used worldwide in tens of millions of medical procedures each year. TRIUMF now produces it without the use of a nuclear reactor.
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There is indirect evidence for the existence of gravitational waves, and they are predicted in Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, but do date, they have still not been directly detected.
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Stanley Coren describes the moment when his passion was taken seriously.
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Seahorses are just one iconic species of countless others being scooped up, unwanted, by bottom trawling. Amanda Vincent describes this most destructive and vulgar of practices.
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The goal is to amend the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to acknowledge citizens’ rights to clean air, water and food. As David Suzuki explains, developers will then need to prove their proposals will not impinge on a clean environment.
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Saturday 7 Mar 2015
The competition was intense. Today, five winners are revealed.
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Australians’ high consumption of red meat brings with it increased risk of a range of cancers, and harmful environmental consequences. Cancer researchers and dieticians advise a radically reduced consumption.
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How will we feed 9 billion people in 2050 when we barely manage to feed 7 billion today?
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Photographs of the Abrolhos Islands were shown in an exhibition and displayed alongside the results of scientists’ work on climate. One fisherman says a light went on. Author Jenny Shaw describes the impact.
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Despite vehement attacks, there have been close to a dozen reports and investigations all showing the results stand up.
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The book and now the film shows how the ideology of free market fundamentalism, aided by a too-compliant media, has skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era, such as tobacco, acid rain, the ozone hole, global warming, and DDT.
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Some people use open records laws (freedom of information) to harass university scientists. Addressing requests can sometimes consume the workplace and take scientists and others from their work.
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Julia McQuoid says for best results, health activities should be automatic, rather than being daily decisions people need to think about.
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Along with other astronomers, Robert Kirshner is trying to track down dark energy and dark matter. He begins by describing a PhD candidate he once supervised, now a Nobel laureate, based at ANU in Canberra.
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Saturday 28 Feb 2015
Earthquake activity has been increasing in parts of the US which historically have low earthquake activity. The additional tremors are thought to be the result of the injection of waste water underground following the extraction of oil.
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Artists used their art to respond to a seminar on the effects of climate change on the coast of Western Australia.
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The flesh-footed shearwater is in decline. The birds scoop up pieces of plastic from the ocean surface, mistaking them for fish and feed the plastic to their chicks. Now the birds are threatened by the radioactive waters of their winter habitat, east of Japan.
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David Suzuki says science and resource managers share a common problem. They chop up the world studying, or managing individual segments, often missing the big picture which shows vital connectivity between individual pieces.
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Josh Byrne has shown it is possible to build a house which produces more power than it uses, wastes barely a drop of water, costs little extra, and is very comfortable.
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Patrick Keeling describes a new theory to describe the origin of some of the strange and curious relationships found at the cellular level in plants and animals.
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Saturday 21 Feb 2015
Increasing amounts of plastic are entering the oceans. It poisons and starves marine creatures, posing threats to marine food chains. A group of scientists measured the amount of plastic and identified the sources. The challenge now is to stem the flow.
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The Citizen Science Association has met for the first time with the pros at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Jose California February 2015.
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The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence has been underway for fifty years. Not a squeak has been heard. Should we be sending specially designed messages to possible distant societies?
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Driverless cars are here. The big challenge is equipping the computer in control with the same decision-making capabilities as a human driver.
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The digital future presents big challenges. One is the design of the internet. Another is the storage of digital information as hardware and software evolve.
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Saturday 14 Feb 2015
Erica Vowles looks at the achievements of 2014 and surveys the race in space exploration as more countries tussle to get their vehicles and astronauts to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
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Saturday 7 Feb 2015
The fourth edition of Professor Kathy Willis's timely new history of our changing relationship with plants.
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Saturday 31 Jan 2015
The third edition of Professor Kathy Willis's timely new history of our changing relationship with plants.
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Saturday 24 Jan 2015
The second edition of Professor Kathy Willis's timely new history of our changing relationship with plants.
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Saturday 17 Jan 2015
The first edition of Professor Kathy Willis's timely new history of our changing relationship with plants.
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Saturday 10 Jan 2015
Suzanne Kapp is collecting information about self-treatment of chronic wounds and aims to develop education programs to assist people with their self-treatment.
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When it comes to immunisation, climate change or the perceived negative effects of wind farms, some people form groups and reinforce irrational views. Why do the facts not penetrate? In politics it seems more often Captain Kirk is in control, rather than Mr Spock.
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