Science Updates is a weekly email alert from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
== PHOTOS: AGEING ==
Ageing is inevitable, or is it? Take our photo trip in time and explore how we age, some theories about why we age, and how we can live to a ripe old age.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2678/0/
== GREEN GURU: SEND IN YOUR QUESTIONS! ==
Are styrofoam cups really worse than ceramic mugs? Is offsetting flights the only option for green minded holiday-makers? And is there any way to get alkaline batteries recycled in this country? The Green Guru has got answers to all your Green At Work questions - just send them through.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2692/0/
== DR KARL: CRASH COLLIDER DESTROYS UNIVERSE ==
There are claims that the world is in peril from a giant particle accelerator. Dr Karl looks at the chances of us all being sucked into a black hole of our own making. http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2693/0/
== TOP STORIES FROM NEWS IN SCIENCE == http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/1759/0/
EARTH'S CRUST WOBBLES LIKE DESSERT
A new, long-term look at the earth's crust suggests that the continental plates are not completely rigid after all.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2694/0/
CULTURE SHAPES DYSLEXIC BRAINS
Dyslexia may be distinct brain disorders in English and Chinese speaking cultures, according to researchers who found different neurological deficits between the two.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2695/0/
SOUTH ASIAN NUCLEAR WAR WOULD DESTROY OZONE
Nuclear war between India and Pakistan would knock a big hole in the ozone layer, affecting crops, animals and people worldwide, researchers say
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2696/0/
FOUND! OLDEST GALAXY PILE-UP
Astronomers have discovered the most distant galactic collisions yet, a cluster of early galaxies caught merging into one giant galaxy when the universe was just a toddler.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2697/0/
== IN THE SKY THIS WEEK == http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/1764/0/
The First Quarter Moon is Sunday April 13. The evening sky to the north is enlivened by Mars and Saturn. In the Northwest Mars is in Gemini and forms a triangle with the bright stars Castor and Pollux (the twins of Gemini). On Saturday April 12 the waxing Moon is close to Mars. Saturn can be seen near the bright star Regulus. This is still a good time to observe this ringed world in a small telescope. On Tuesday 15 April, the waxing Moon, Regulus and Saturn form a close triangle. In the eastern morning sky Venus can be seen low in the morning twilight.
== ABC HEALTH & WELLBEING == http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/1765/0/
== THE PULSE: THE CLIMATE CHANGE DIET == Spiralling food prices, fuelled in part by climate change, may pressure us into changing our diet - perhaps for the better.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2659/0/
== TRANSCRIPTS NOW ONLINE
MUSICIAN, AUTHOR OR PHYSICIST? (In Conversation: 03/04/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2698/0/
PANIC DYNAMIC (Catalyst: 03/04/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2699/0/
BLOOD PUMP (Catalyst: 03/04/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2688/0/
MEET TOXICOLOGIST GEOFF ISBISTER (Catalyst: 03/04/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2689/0/
IMPROVING THE ODDS OF IVF (Catalyst: 03/04/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2687/0/
POETIC SCIENCE: BODIES, BRAINS AND THE ART OF EXPERIMENTATION (All In The Mind: 05/04/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2686/0/
GENE RADAR (Science Show: 05/04/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2684/0/
GREEN AT WORK (Science Show: 05/04/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2700/0/
QUANTUM DOTS AND NANOWIRES (Science Show: 05/04/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2701/0/
CALICIVIRUS DELIVERS VACCINES IN HUMANS (Science Show: 05/04/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2683/0/
SURFACE CHEMISTRY (Science Show: 05/04/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2702/0/
NEW SMART MATERIALS (Science Show: 05/04/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2703/0/
NANO TECHNOLOGY IN ENERGY GENERATION AND USE OF RESOURCES (Science Show: 05/04/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2704/0/
SOLAR CELLS (Science Show: 05/04/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2705/0/
REGENERATION OF NERVES (Science Show: 05/04/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2685/0/
THE CLIMATE ENGINEERS (Background Briefing: 06/04/2008)
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/2706/0/
== COMING UP ON ABC RADIO == http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/1773/0/
SCIENCE SHOW - Ten questions that science hasn't answered (yet)
Saturday 12 April, 12.05pm & Monday 14 April, 7.05pm RN
Can dogs laugh? What is time? What's the point? Mike Hanlon has extracted ten key questions to which scientists have yet to give any kind of convincing reply. He thinks he may have found the answer to a couple and he shares them with us on the Science Show this week. We also find out whether Adam Spencer is right about Mythbusters. Is the show really scientific?
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/902/0/
ALL IN THE MIND – A Day in the Life Of ……Meet the Ingersons.
Saturday 12 April, 1.05pm, & Monday 14 April, 1.05pm RN
4 year old Tara has a very special brain. Like Rain Man, she was born without a Corpus Collosum. It's the head's superhighway - a thick band of nerve fibres connecting the two hemispheres of the brain. Join Natasha Mitchell as she experiences a day in the life of the Ingerson family, with rare insights into one of the most complicated neurological birth defects.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/903/0/
THE PHILOSOPHER'S ZONE - Steam-age philosophy
Saturday 12 April, 1.30pm & Monday 14 April, 1.35pm RN
Two of the inventors of the steam engine differed hugely about the theory behind what they were doing. Did that make a difference to what they did, or does philosophy not matter at all? This week's program stares into the gap between theory and practice.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/904/0/
OCKHAM'S RAZOR - Schizophrenia and the origin of human nature
Sunday 13 April, 8.45am RN
Associate Professor at the Wollongong Graduate School of Medicine, Robert Kaplan tells the story of schizophrenia; the most severe and disabling of all psychiatric illnesses. A century ago sufferers were incarcerated for life but today, while there still is no cure, patients can be successfully treated enabling them to lead a normal life.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/910/0/
INNOVATIONS
Sunday 13 April (0830hrs UT), Monday 14 April (1330 & 1705hrs UT), Wednesday 16 April (0430hrs UT), Radio Australia
The world first gigabit wireless chip set to shake up the world of consumer electronics; discovery of an unexpected source of deadly fine particles contaminating many work places and, turn off your shower to turn on savings.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/1775/0/
HEALTH REPORT – ABC Radio National's weekly health roundup
Monday 14 April, 8.30am and 8.05pm RN
Join Dr Norman Swan for news of the latest issues and developments in the world of health and medicine on this week's Health Report.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/920/0/
IN CONVERSATION - Homo erectus and food
Thursday 17 April, 7.35pm
The diet and social implications for homo erectus was profoundly changed when food was cooked for the first time - but when was fire introduced? This is a question that Prof. Richard Wrangham from the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University attempts to answer when he is In Conversation with Robyn Williams this week. But the debate continues and the jury is still out. Also under discussion would humans be able to exist on the diets of chimpanzees? He has tasted some of the fruits that they eat and tells us that humans would not find them at all palatable.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/1468/0/
== HIGHLIGHTS ON ABC TV == http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/1773/0/
CATALYST
ABC 1, Thursday 17 April, 8pm
Get lucky by discovering the four fundamentals of luck; uncovering the origin of gold nuggets; Australian Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty; and Paul Willis finds out whether good sax is about how well you blow.
http://abcmail.net.au/t/126032/686964/834/0/
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