In the early 1980's, a young Sydney man gave blood. He didn't know he was infected with the AIDS virus and that the deadly microbe in his blood would be passed on to at least eight other patients...
How much do we really know about food safety and do we actually put it into practice? This story looks at the seriousness of food poisoning outbreaks and discusses the problem with scientists...
Like many Australians, the average oyster likes living by the sea and having a good drink. Every hour it sucks in an average of ten litres of water, as it sieves for it's food.
What they drink is...
In October, 1996, residents of the twin towns of Albury-Wadonga on the NSW-Victoria border were shocked when the floodgates of the nearby Hume Dam were opened. The sixty year old dam had developed a...
El Nino is not new and can be traced back as far as European records. Many of the great droughts were in El Nino years, horrendous bushfire years also match El Nino and even economic falls coincide...
From the ape, to the human, to the silicon substitute, The Face will take you on a remarkable three part journey behind the mast that makes the human face.
Part 1 - Recognition
The heart pumps 10,000 litres of blood through it everyday. But imagine your heart stopping for hours at a time. Each year this happens to over 18,000 Australians during open heart surgery. But how...
In September 1994, a Queensland horse trainer and most of his stable of race horses fell to a sudden and mysterious illness. Within several days - days of furious police investigations, poisoning...
Vast deposits of granite rocks lie five kilometres underneath Australia. At temperatures of nearly three hundred degrees, they contain enough energy to generate Australia's entire electricity supply...
Dr Vaughn Clift, a medical doctor, is as far as he knows, the only Australian working for NASA. He laments the fact that Australia used to be heavily involved in the space program, and now has no...
In a millisecond, on July 16, 1945, the evolution of the human species took a remarkable turn.
Part 1: A Deadly Dose
Half a century after the explosion of the world's first nuclear weapon, with X-...
Mars and Earth are brother and sister - or they were 4 billion years ago. They started life as equals, with similar atmospheres, planetary features and climates.
On the Earth the clement conditions...
An excellent program for geography students. Divided into three parts, this 30 minute special focuses on river health and water quality in Australia.
River Health
An action-packed story from the...
In September 1996 a research team consisting of archaeologist Richard Fullagar, dating expert David Price and geographer Lesley Head, claimed they had good evidence that Aborigines had been living at...
In a freezer at Stanford University in California is stored what some say is the most precious collection of blood samples ever assembled. Others describe the collection as a crime against humanity...
Q&A puts punters, pollies and pundits together in the studio to thrash out the hot issues of the week. It's about democracy in action - on Q&A the audience gets to ask the questions. It...
Q&A puts punters, pollies and pundits together in the studio to thrash out the hot issues of the week. It's about democracy in action - on Q&A the audience gets to ask the questions. It...
In February 2000, an international team of biologists met in Hobart, Tasmania to discuss what they believe is a global crisis - the sudden appearance of strange marine micro-organisms capable of...
