EnhanceTV Science and Technology Highlights RSS Feed http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvhighlights/?category=62 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:47:53 1000 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/displaytv.php?RecordId=104280 Every day for the last five billion years, the Sun has risen over the Earth. The constantly roiling surface of our nearest star was hidden from human eyes until the days of the Renaissance, when Galileo raised an early telescope to study the Sun's surface. What he discovered challenged the status quo and almost brought the Catholic Church to its knees. This program explores the past, present and future of the Sun's importance to our world. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/displaytv.php?RecordId=147916 Can cutting edge science make you more intelligent, live for longer, function without sleep? In short, improve your life? Make Me Stay Awake moves from the quirky to cutting edge science, as Michael Mosley tests the extraordinary claim that we might only need a few hours of sleep - if that - each night. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/displaytv.php?RecordId=157688 Looks at stem cell research and its potential, following three young people with currently untreatable conditions. Dean Thurd, whose inherited dilated cardiomyopathy could kill him at any time, visits the London Chest Hospital where a trial is under way to inject adult stem cells directly into the heart wall; Anthony Bart, whose leg was amputated after a rugby accident, heads to Tampere University, Finland, where a team is working on adult stem cells collected from human fat; and Sophie Morgan, paralysed from the waist down after a car accident, finds out whether there really has been a breakthrough that could get her back on her feet, at the University of California. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/displaytv.php?RecordId=159160 33-year-old Claire Nouvian is a documentary filmmaker and a curator at the Paris Museum of Natural History. She has a passion for mysterious creatures from the depths of the ocean. She accompanies researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California as they probe the depths of the Monterey Canyon using a remote-controlled submersible to observe and capture the amazing creatures that live there. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/displaytv.php?RecordId=160752 Bangladesh is one of the countries most seriously affected by climate change. It is constantly battered by cyclones, coastal surges, overflowing rivers and violent downpours. Climate refugees from across the country are pouring into the capital, Dhaka. But Bangladesh is fighting back. In rural areas communities are developing new and ingenious ways of coping with climate change to help people survive, easing the pressure on the country's capital.