How can a supercomputer can help researchers to a better understanding of the poliovirus at an atomic level? This has implications for understanding and eradicating deadly diseases worldwide.
Is there anyone out there? Does the popular movie quote 'ET phone home' have any substance? Astronomers have been pointing their radio telescopes at the skies for decades trying to pick up alien signals.
In the western world there's an epidemic of allergies. Could it be that our lifestyles are too clean? And that we're not exposing ourselves to bugs that help build our immune systems? Is there bacteria that is good for us?
Good to know as you travel to the Antipodes / Australia has the most venomous snakes and spiders in the world. But, if you are bitten, can you rely on anti/venom? Dr Graham Phillips investigates the effectiveness of anti/venom.
This special report looks at the domino effect of environmental and atmospheric factors that drive the globe to wetter, hotter, drier and colder extremes.
By building see/through flowers, researchers at the University of Connecticut have captured high/speed, high/magnification images of the remarkable tongue of the Hummingbird.
By investigating the tell/tale signs of earthquakes and tsunamis written into the landscape over the last thousand years, Japanese scientists are rewriting the rule books for disaster prevention in the Pacific.
Each year, over 2000 people apply for jobs in Antarctica, but few are successful. What are the physical and psychological attributes required to work in the most remote location on Earth?
What is memory? How do our memories change from childhood to adulthood? How we can build up greater brain reserves to power our mind into old age? Brain epigenetics, how the expression of our DNA can be changed by our experiences
Do sharks have friends? Watch and see if there is actually anything to study when we look at the "social behavior" of sharks off the coast of New South Wales, Australia.
Take a look at the Voyager unmanned space probes launched in the 1970's // and where they are now after 36 years of travel. Voyager I is the furthest traveled man made object in space.