Science Updates is a weekly email alert from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
== FLOOD PHOTOS WANTED ==
Swollen rivers, lightning strikes, stranded kittens – if you've got a great photo of a recent storm then send it in for our summer storms photo gallery.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/1758/0/
== TOP STORIES FROM NEWS IN SCIENCE == http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/1759/0/
HIDDEN DATA 'SHOWS ANTIDEPRESSANTS HYPED'
Best-selling antidepressants are barely more effective than placebos in treating most people with depression, a UK study finds.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/2099/0/
AGGESSIVE TEENS HAVE MISMATCHED BRAINS
Angst-ridden teens really do have something wrong with their heads. Their emotions seem to be developing much faster than the parts of the brain that manage those emotions.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/2100/0/
GLOBAL SEED BANK TO BE NOAH'S ARK OF FOOD
An Arctic 'doomsday vault' filled with samples of the world's most important crop seeds will be opened this week.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/2101/0/
FOUND! BIGGEST WEB OF DARK MATTER
The largest-ever structure of the enigmatic substance known as dark matter has been mapped by international astronomers who peered deep into the universe.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/2102/0/
== IN THE SKY THIS WEEK == http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/1764/0/
The Last Quarter Moon is Friday February 29. The evening sky to the north is now dominated by Mars and Saturn. Mars forms a delightful broad triangle with the bright red stars Alderbaran and Betelgeuse, and is not far from the bright star Elnath. With the Pleiades cluster and Orion's belt nearby, the evening sky is particularly beautiful now. Saturn can be seen in the north-east near the bright star Regulus. Saturn was at its largest and brightest last week, but it will be still fantastic to observe the ringed world in a small telescope. If you don't have a telescope, why not go to your local astronomical societies or planetariums open days? In the morning twilight, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter are readily visible. The crescent Moon is very close to Jupiter on Monday March 3. Mercury and Venus start the week with a spectacular pairing on Thursday February 28. During the week they pull apart and are joined by the thin crescent Moon on Thursday March 6 for another amazing sight.
== ABC HEALTH & WELLBEING == http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/1765/0/
== THE PULSE: IT'S A FURPHY: HEALTH CHAIN EMAILS ==
There are lots of them about: chain emails bearing bogus health messages. Don't be taken in.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/2103/0/
== TRANSCRIPTS NOW ONLINE
ENGINEERING THE PERFECT WAVE (Catalyst: 21/02/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/2104/0/
SAVING THE KAKAPO (In Conversation: 21/02/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/2105/0/
HUMAN ORIGINS (Catalyst: 21/02/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/2106/0/
SICK BUILDINGS (Catalyst: 21/02/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/2107/0/
WOMEN OFFENDERS: CONFRONTING THE CONFRONTING (All In The Mind: 23/02/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/2108/0/
SCIENCE FUNDING IN IRELAND AND THE POTENTIAL AND ETHICS OF ANIMAL CLONING (Science Show: 23/02/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/2109/0/
DEEP-SEA CORALS (Science Show: 23/02/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/2110/0/
ATLAS OF THE WORLD'S OCEANS AND HUMAN IMPACT (Science Show: 23/02/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/2111/0/
THE STATE OF THE WORLD'S OCEANS (Science Show: 23/02/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/2112/0/
MARS ROVER PHOENIX (Science Show: 23/02/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/2113/0/
ENGINEERING'S BIG CHALLENGE IN THE 21ST CENTURY (Science Show: 23/02/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/2114/0/
SCIENCE UNDER GEORGE W. BUSH (Science Show: 23/02/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/2115/0/
== COMING UP ON ABC RADIO == http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/1773/0/
SCIENCE SHOW - Machines for the mind.
Saturday 1 March, 12.05pm & Monday 3 March, 7.05pm RN
Take a computer and make it behave like a child, then introduce it to an autistic student. The response is remarkable. The autistic boy (usually) or girl (sometimes) responds with enthusiasm. The interaction with the machine both teaches and helps the child interact with others far more effectively. Also: Ray Kurzweil talks of a machine like a mobile phone that can read for the blind and assist the dyslexic. And we visit fears of the very small - to coincide with a major nanotechnology conference in Melbourne this week. This is the second Science Show from the AAAS jamboree - the American Association of science meeting just ended
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/902/0/
ALL IN THE MIND – Pain: The power and the pain (Part 1 of 2)
Saturday 1 March, 1.05pm, & Monday 3 March, 1.05pm RN
BBC Baghdad correspondent Andrew North was struck down with a debilitating illness after reporting on the US invasion in Iraq, paralysed with acute pain as his immune system attacked his nervous system. After witnessing pain in so many others, he was forced to confront his own. Over two programs, Andrew explores the perplexing experience of pain. In Part 1 - how power, or lack of it, shapes an individual's experience.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/903/0/
OCKHAM'S RAZOR - Why frogs don't like mobile phones
Sunday 2 March, 8.45am RN
Member and past president of the Western Australian branch of Men of the Trees Barrie Oldfield discusses the decline of frog populations in this International Year of the Frog. Can electro magnetic radiation be the reason for this calamity? In today's modern world EMR is emitted through radio, television, mobile phones, satellite navigation systems, the microwave oven and many more of our modern day appliances. Is this the culprit?
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/910/0/
INNOVATIONS
Sunday 2 March (0830hrs UT), Monday 3 March (1330 & 1705hrs UT), Wednesday 5 March (0430hrs UT), Radio Australia
A new and improved chocolate emerges from Australia's new cocoa growing and processing industry and, we join a volunteer medical team on a mission to save African lives through open heart surgery.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/1775/0/
HEALTH REPORT - Osteonecrosis - bone death
Monday 3 March, 8.30am and 8.05pm RN
There have been a lot of headlines in the last few months about drugs for osteoporosis which are alleged to cause serious problems in the jaw. Some international experts have recently looked at the evidence and there's good news and bad news.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/920/0/
== HIGHLIGHTS ON ABC TV == http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/1773/0/
CATALYST
ABC 1, Thursday 6 March, 8pm
Find out what makes the extreme sports brain tick; learn about Australia's mineral ores, discover why blue bottles are actually quite impressive despite their painful punch and meet engineer and environmental crusader Professor Veena Sahajwalla.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/96748/686964/834/0/
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