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Catalyst: Sit Back, Relax: The Dawn Of The Driverless Car

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Sit Back, Relax: The Dawn Of The Driverless Car

ABC | September 26, 2017

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The dream of the driverless car has quickly moved from the realm of science fiction. Semi-autonomous cars can park themselves, stay within the well-marked lines of a modern freeway, steer and brake to avoid unseen obstacles.

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The dream of the driverless car has quickly moved from the realm of science fiction. Semi-autonomous cars can park themselves, stay within the well-marked lines of a modern freeway, steer and brake to avoid unseen obstacles.

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In the season final, Dr Caroline West meets scientists working at the forefront of memory research, introducing remarkable individuals whose exceptional memories and unique abilities are helping unlock the secrets of memory.

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Do you know how heavy Uluru is? From the ground up? Lily Serna thinks you do. In this Catalyst, Lily delves into the world of luck. From sharing birthdays to winning at blackjack; playing Aussie rules football to planning air sea rescues, Lily discovers that what can often seem like chance is in fact probability at play. Discover how the maths of luck can put the odds in your favour.

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Do you know how heavy Uluru is? From the ground up? Lily Serna thinks you do. In this Catalyst, Lily delves into the world of luck. From sharing birthdays to winning at blackjack; playing Aussie rules football to planning air sea rescues, Lily discovers that what can often seem like chance is in fact probability at play. Discover how the maths of luck can put the odds in your favour.

Nutritionist Dr Joanna McMillan is on a mission to help stem the onslaught of type 2 diabetes, devising a personalised program to help four Australians on the brink of developing the chronic illness.

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Time travel is not forbidden by the laws of nature but to build a time machine, we need to understand more about those laws and how to subvert them. Dr Graham Phillips showcases the scientists working on the cutting edge of discovery - the men and women who may learn to build wormholes, manipulate entangled photons or send information back in time, by warping space-time.

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Chef Paul West, dietitian Professor Clare Collins and Dr Noby Leong reveal the key breakthroughs in science and technology that will shape what we might be eating in the coming decades.

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To many people, organic or wild caught food is the best and healthiest produce to eat. But in 2050, when Australia’s population hits 40 million, we may have to find more sustainable ways to farm our food than nature currently provides. Chef Paul West, Nutritionist Professor Clare Collins and Dr Noby Leong travel across Australia to meet the growers and scientists who are making key breakthroughs in this field.

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To many people, organic or wild caught food is the best and healthiest produce to eat. But in 2050, when Australia’s population hits 40 million, we may have to find more sustainable ways to farm our food than nature currently provides. Chef Paul West, Nutritionist Professor Clare Collins and Dr Noby Leong travel across Australia to meet the growers and scientists who are making key breakthroughs in this field.

In this program, Catalyst uncovers the secrets to healthier skin, gets up close and personal with some of the most common rashes, spots and blemishes - and shows you how to care for the largest organ in your body. And where better to do that than at the beach? With the help of a team of Australia's top dermatologists we'll find out why skin health is more than a cosmetic issue. We'll learn what we can all do to keep our skin working well for us at any age. We'll find out some surprising facts about moisturiser - and look at how technology is being used to help in the detection and protection against skin cancer. And in the burns unit of ground-breaking Australian surgeon Fiona Wood, we'll meet some of the patients benefiting from her work and find out the latest science around regenerating and protecting skin in trauma.

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Lawrence Leung lives a busy life - he's an actor, comedian and a dad to a young daughter. He doesn't always get enough sleep and often wonders if he should be getting more. In this episode of Catalyst, Lawrence explores the latest science behind sleep to find out what he's missing out on - and if he needs it at all. Lawrence meets some of Australia's top sleep scientists as he asks: What is sleep for? When should I go to bed? What happens if I don't sleep? And, how can I sleep better? Along the way he discovers that it's during sleep that the brain chooses which memories to strengthen and which to lose; that extreme sleep deprivation negatively affects a whole range of body functions; and that he should be sleeping more like an elite athlete - and a koala.

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Lawrence Leung lives a busy life - he's an actor, comedian and a dad to a young daughter. He doesn't always get enough sleep and often wonders if he should be getting more. In this episode of Catalyst, Lawrence explores the latest science behind sleep to find out what he's missing out on - and if he needs it at all. Lawrence meets some of Australia's top sleep scientists as he asks: What is sleep for? When should I go to bed? What happens if I don't sleep? And, how can I sleep better? Along the way he discovers that it's during sleep that the brain chooses which memories to strengthen and which to lose; that extreme sleep deprivation negatively affects a whole range of body functions; and that he should be sleeping more like an elite athlete - and a koala.

Forty-eight-year-old Victoria has chronic anxiety disorder. She's battled this her whole life. But in the past few years she's begun suffering from excruciating gut problems. No-one has been able to provide answers. So, are her gut bacteria the missing link in causing her symptoms? Nutrition scientist Dr Joanna McMillan takes on her most challenging case, exploring emerging science about the links between gut bacteria and the brain to design an intervention to help Victoria where all else has failed. Victoria's struggle is revealing, at time confronting, but above all, inspiring. And the results - astonishing and life-changing.

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The race to the moon is back on. Half a century since the last Apollo mission landed on the moon, Alan Duffy takes us inside the new space race, where innovators and big dreamers are rewriting the rule book on space exploration. He witnesses the launch of a new-generation of rocket at Cape Canaveral in Florida. Created by SpaceX, this rocket is partly reusable, and the innovations behind it may help us get back to the moon. Alan meets the pioneers at US's first licenced spaceport in Mojave in California who are building new types of lunar landers and rockets. And he finds out that the discovery of water on the moon may transform our chances of living there and using the moon to explore planets far from home.

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There's a tech revolution unfolding in Australia - but it's not happening where you might expect. A team of scientists led by internationally renowned roboticist, Salah Sukkarieh, are opening up a new world of farming science; one that could give Australian farmers more control over their future than ever before. Catalyst joins engineers from the Australian Centre for Field Robotics as they explore the world of agriculture to develop robots and create smarter ways of farming. But are these prototype robots up to the many tasks of a farmer? Will they change the way we've been farming for generations? Can the robots lead the farmers (and their cattle) to greener pastures? Australian farmers are up against it. But help is at hand.

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From the science of making choices to the solving power of algorithms, mathematician Lily Serna looks at how the logic of mathematics can help you make better, smarter decisions. In the process she steps us through some of its most important ideas and shows that, far from being stuck on a chalkboard in a lecture hall, it's all incredibly useful.

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For the past 35 years, twins have been some of the most carefully studied people in Australia. Seventy-five thousand twins have been revealing the secrets of how much we inherit from our parents and in what ways our experience shapes who we become. Researchers are trying to understand what determines their personalities, makes them succeed at a school or even live longer. It turns out that twins research is confounding simple conclusions about what makes us who we are. We are a complex interplay of genes and environment. In fact revealing the secrets of this extraordinary group of people, may just help all of us live a longer, healthier life.

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Gut Revolution seeks to sort the facts from the faeces in an observational series that follows two people with debilitating gut issues on their quest for better health. In part 1, 26-year-old mother-of-two Melissa has been battling a painful case of irritable bowel syndrome for the past two years. She's seen all the doctors and had all the investigations but no-one has been able to help her. Can the latest science driving the Gut Revolution provide any answers? We follow Melissa over her transformational six-week journey as our team of experts design an intervention that literally changes her life.

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Years 9-10, 11-12 Science, Health and PE

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We all know exercise is good for us. But how many of us really know what kind of exercise we should be doing, how much of it we need, or how hard we should push ourselves? To find the answers, and help all of us live happier, healthier lives, GP Caroline West and cell biologist Shalin Naik are putting their bodies on the line at Australia's toughest athlete training facility: the Australian Institute of Sport. They'll be stealing the latest sports science secrets from the Formula Ones of fitness to help all of us get fitter and stay healthy.

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Off Australia's north-east coast lies a wonder of the world; a living structure so big it can be seen from space, more intricate and complex than any city, and so diverse it hosts a third of all fish species in Australia. The Great Barrier Reef as we know it - 8000 years old and home to thousands of marine species - is dying in our lifetime. Can We Save the Reef? is the epic story of Australian and international scientists who are racing to understand our greatest natural wonder, and employing bold new science to save it.

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On Friday 15 September, the Cassini spacecraft was intentionally crashed into the planet of Saturn and destroyed. Associate Professor Alan Duffy was on the ground at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex to witness the end of this remarkable 20-year mission. Cassini's images and data have changed the way we understand our solar system. Cassini analysed plumes of water that strongly hint at the possibility of life on Saturn's moon, Enceladus. It was this discovery that sealed Cassini's fate - the scientists decided to crash the space probe and its plutonium-powered batteries into Saturn to avoid contaminating Enceladus. Set against the in-the-moment experience of Cassini's controlled demolition is the story of how the mission came to be, thanks to the passion, brilliance and perseverance of some of the planet's greatest space explorers - the men and women of NASA, the European Space Agency and ASI, the Italian Space Agency.

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A group of world-renowned scientists are on a quest to uncover the secrets of the most significant day in our planet's history: the day that killed the dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago an asteroid the size of London hit the planet in the modern-day Gulf of Mexico. Now, as co-leaders of an expedition to drill deep into the Chicxulub asteroid impact crater, Geologists Sean Gulick and Jo Morgan have set out to answer how this resulted in the extinction of dinosaurs.

Catalyst: Secrets Of The Dinosaur Crater

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Will we soon find evidence of alien life? Scientists are currently in the throes of an unprecedented search for ET - and an answer to this long-pondered question may come sooner than you think.

Right now researchers are hunting for extra-terrestrial life on several fronts. To find out just how close we might be to a breakthrough, astrophysicist Dr Graham Phillips visits telescopes, swims among the stromatolites on the remote West Australian coastline, and chats with scientists from around the world. He even talks to an eminent astrophysicist who suggests we may have already inadvertently stumbled on evidence of alien mega technology out in space.

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Professor Tim Flannery investigates how seaweed is helping to save the world - from growing the foods of the future, helping clean polluted water and even combating climate change. Growing seaweed is now a $10 billion a year global industry. Tim travels to Korea to see some of the biggest seaweed farms in the world and meets the scientists who are hoping to create a seaweed revolution here in Australia.

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Imagine you could make a copy of a loved one. A digital clone with a life of its own - their Avatar. That's the dream of biomechanical engineer, Dr Jordan Nguyen, and he says we have the technology to do it right now in the form of virtual reality. VR might be thought as way to play games but as Jordan discovers, it's so much more. VR is being used to face phobias, to combat trauma and in the case of one Newcastle man, Angus, help to re-verse the effects of a catastrophic spinal injury.

Human impacts on the way our planet functions have now become so extreme many scientists are claiming the Earth has shifted out of the Holocene state and into a new geological epoch. They're calling it the Anthropocene, the new age of humans, because millions of years after we are gone, the scar of our existence will be visible in the rocks of tomorrow. In this episode we look at how the past 60 years of socio economic growth has transformed the human race into a geological force to rival nature.

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The anecdotal evidence that cannabis has a positive effect on a long list of medical conditions from epilepsy to pain, cancer, even Alzheimer's disease is building. However, to date there's been scant clinical evidence to back up these claims. At long last that may be changing. In this half-hour special, Dr Graham Phillips finds that researchers are now applying scientific rigour to convert anecdote into data and it turns out there could be plenty of promise in this so-called "wonder weed".

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The Lost World of Joseph Banks: Legacy

Years 9-10, 11-12 History, Science

Sir Joseph Banks, naturalist, explorer, President of the Royal Society for more than 40 years and one of Australia's founding fathers, was among the most outstanding figures of the 18th and 19th centuries. He rose to fame when as a young botanist, accompanying Captain Cook on his circumnavigation and voyage of discovery to the Pacific Ocean, and yet a true picture of Banks' life has never emerged nor an appreciation of his enduring importance. This documentary features contributors with specialised knowledge of Banks' life, his epic journey of discovery and contributions to key scientific institutions.

Have you ever performed a science experiment and wondered 'What would this be like if it were huge?' Welcome to Science Max, the exciting new series that turbocharges all the science experiments you've done at home. Join our host Phil McCordic as he turbocharges the ingredients, location, and equipment of ordinary experiments, taking science to a whole new level.

Science Max: Experiments at Large

Years 5-6, 7-8 Science

Have you ever performed a science experiment and wondered 'What would this be like if it were huge?' Welcome to Science Max, the exciting new series that turbocharges all the science experiments you've done at home. Join our host Phil McCordic as he turbocharges the ingredients, location, and equipment of ordinary experiments, taking science to a whole new level.

Have you ever performed a science experiment and wondered 'What would this be like if it were huge?' Welcome to Science Max, the exciting new series that turbocharges all the science experiments you've done at home. Join our host Phil McCordic as he turbocharges the ingredients, location, and equipment of ordinary experiments, taking science to a whole new level.

Science Max: Experiments at Large

Years 5-6, 7-8 Science

Have you ever performed a science experiment and wondered 'What would this be like if it were huge?' Welcome to Science Max, the exciting new series that turbocharges all the science experiments you've done at home. Join our host Phil McCordic as he turbocharges the ingredients, location, and equipment of ordinary experiments, taking science to a whole new level.

We meet a marathon runner hoping to go the distance, say hello to an octopus, but don't quite manage to dodge the balls at dodgeball.

Totally Wild

Years 3-4, 5-6 Science, Health and PE

We meet a marathon runner hoping to go the distance, say hello to an octopus, but don't quite manage to dodge the balls at dodgeball.

Watch as Kari Byron becomes a human electricity conductor, a water-filled trashcan is totally destroyed, and a steel wool pad is popped into a microwave oven.

Head Rush: Human Conductors

Years 7-8 Science

Watch as Kari Byron becomes a human electricity conductor, a water-filled trashcan is totally destroyed, and a steel wool pad is popped into a microwave oven.

Legendary astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson chats with Brian Cox, the English physicist, about how science is communicated in different cultures, superheroes and the physics of wormholes.

StarTalk: Brian Cox

Years 9-10, 11-12 Science

Legendary astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson chats with Brian Cox, the English physicist, about how science is communicated in different cultures, superheroes and the physics of wormholes.

See what happens when host Kari Byron pushes a weighted balloon onto a bed of nails.

Head Rush: Bed of Nails

Years 7-8 Science

See what happens when host Kari Byron pushes a weighted balloon onto a bed of nails.

How do boats float? Why does popcorn pop? Could a dinosaur live today? Join Kellyn, resident scientist Clare, the crew and a cast of historical characters as they brainstorm answers to your questions.

Brainbuzz: Track and Field

Years 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 Science

How do boats float? Why does popcorn pop? Could a dinosaur live today? Join Kellyn, resident scientist Clare, the crew and a cast of historical characters as they brainstorm answers to your questions.

How do boats float? Why does popcorn pop? Could a dinosaur live today? Join Kellyn, resident scientist Clare, the crew and a cast of historical characters as they brainstorm answers to your questions.

Brainbuzz: Defence Science

Years 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 Science

How do boats float? Why does popcorn pop? Could a dinosaur live today? Join Kellyn, resident scientist Clare, the crew and a cast of historical characters as they brainstorm answers to your questions.

Check out cool chemistry as host Kari Byron makes monster toothpaste. Discover tricks to revealing fingerprints.

Head Rush: Monster Toothpaste

Years 7-8 Science

Check out cool chemistry as host Kari Byron makes monster toothpaste. Discover tricks to revealing fingerprints.

Legendary astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson talks to Bas Lansdorp, co-founder of Mars One, a non-profit organisation with the goal of establishing a permanent human settlement on Mars.

StarTalk: Mars 1

Years 9-10, 11-12 Science

Legendary astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson talks to Bas Lansdorp, co-founder of Mars One, a non-profit organisation with the goal of establishing a permanent human settlement on Mars.

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