| The Science Show | Scientists want more from the Royal Commission Report on the fires in Victoria, believing too much evidence has been restricted because of legal requirements connected with ongoing criminal cases. The Science Show | Suzanne Cory is the first elected female president of the Australian Academy of Science. She says science has sadly been omitted as an issue as we move towards the August 21 election. The Science Show | Why do we have eyebrows? Do they protect our eyes from water? Or help us communicate? Is the eyebrow lift something we learn to do, or is it instinctive? David Attenborough describes his own personal experiment. All in the Mind | As East and West meet across the boardroom tables of big business, there's growing interest in how culture shapes the psyche and self. This week, controversial research on self-esteem. Do East Asians need less of it to feel good about themselves? The Health Report | Last week we reported on suggestions that calcium supplements may be associated with a risk of heart attacks and maybe strokes. Some Australian and overseas researchers believe that the study was flawed and reject the findings. Life Matters | Australian adolescent sleeping patterns have been revealed for the first time in a large study by researchers at the University of South Australia. Their finding? Teenagers are not sleeping nearly enough. Late Night Live | The early collaboration between pyrotechnicians, artists and scientists led to the development of the sciences we know today including physics, astronomy, chemistry, physiology, and even meteorology. Big Idea | Part three: What we'll never know. Does science have the answers to help us save our planet? RN Breakfast | The distortion of light caused by heat rising from the Earth's surface gives stars their twinkle, but it also makes them tricky to observe with a telescope. Now scientists have figured how to take the twinkle out of stars.
Catalyst | Researchers in Adelaide are using new breeding techniques to develop plant varieties that can better cope with drought and salinity. Catalyst | In the 1980s, scientists published startling evidence of a hole in the ozone layer. In 1989, governments around the world agreed to cut CFC emissions under the Montreal Protocol. Is the ozone problem now fixed? And how could that global action inform our current climate change challenges? Catalyst | Sydney scientists have come up with an innovative way of seeing what happens in the brains of people with Parkinson's disease when they experience 'freeze of gait'. Catalyst | Surprisingly the Caenorhabditis elegans worm deals with alcohol in a similar way to humans. Researchers at the University of Southhampton have been studying the effects of alcohol on its nervous system.
Innovations | A decade of selective breeding and research by Australian scientists has produced what could be the world's most perfect prawn.
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