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Title Catalyst: Bone Scaffold/Mystery Of The Flesh Eaters/Space Beer/Why Is It So?/Biggest Bang/Bioluminescence
Published Australia : ABC, 2011
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Summary A new way to repair broken bones; insidious flesh eaters; drinks in space; the biggest bangs in the cosmos; revisiting the much loved demonstrations of Julius Sumner Miller.BONE SCAFFOLDBone is the second most transplanted tissue in the world, second only to blood. While our bones have the ability to heal a simple fracture, large areas of damaged bone require replacement material to heal. But donor bone or bone taken from elsewhere in the patient's body, has drawbacks. Dr Maryanne Demasi meets a team of scientists at the University of Sydney who has been working on the 'holy grail' for orthopaedic replacements synthetic bone scaffold.MYSTERY OF THE FLESH EATERSIt lives outdoors and attacks during hot summer months, usually after a heavy rainfall. These few, meagre clues began a decade-long hunt for the cause of an infectious disease. Tanya Ha reports how Dr John Gerrard tracked down the worms responsible for vectoring a virulent flesh-eating bacteria into humans.SPACE BEER80,000 space fans are booked on commercial suborbital flights from 2012 and it's likely that a few of them will want to savour a beer whilst enjoying the spectacular view! Until now no one had actually tested the physiological effects of weightlessness on a carbonated beverage. Dr Paul Willis meets a group of enterprising scientist brewers as they take their beer where no beer's been before. WHY IS IT SO?Back in the 1960s Julius Sumner Miller was a household name and the idiosyncratic face of science on TV. His passion and mad professor antics delighted viewers as he inspired a generation of science enthusiasts with the famous phrase 'why is it so?' Ruben Meerman, and Julius Sumner Miller Fellow at University of Sydney, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, conduct physics demonstrations with the very same kit used by Julius himself. BIGGEST BANGAfter the Big Bang, gamma ray bursts are the most powerful explosions we see in the cosmos. Dr Graham Phillips reveals the possible explanations of what causes them.BIOLUMINESCENCEBioluminescence from the Latin for bio: living and lumen: light is a chemical reaction inside a living cell which generates light. From sea creatures to mushrooms, bioluminescence provides a glowing existence
Event Broadcast 2011-06-16 at 20:00:00
Notes Classification: G
Subject Big bang theory.
Carbonated beverages -- Physiological effect.
Carnivorous animals.
Communicable diseases -- Transmission.
Gamma ray bursts.
Sounding rockets.
Form Streaming video
Author Burton, Gregory F, contributor
Byles, Max, contributor
Demasi, Maryanne, reporter
Gerrard, John, contributor
Held, Jason, contributor
Keogh, Daniel, contributor
Keogh, Daniel, reporter
Krauss, Lawrence, contributor
Kruszelnicki, Karl, contributor
Meerman, Ruben, host
Phillips, Graham, reporter
Schmidt, Brian, contributor
Steinberg, Ted, contributor
Willis, Paul, reporter
Yu, Julian, contributor
Zreiqat, Hala, contributor