
Catalyst is Australia's premier science investigation series. Each week the team brings you stories from Australia and around the world, meeting scientists at the forefront of discovery.
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Air Date: 2014-01-01
Meet Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, world-renowned primatologist, humanitarian, conservationist and UN Messenger of Peace.
Air Date: 2015-01-01
Do sharks have friends? Watch and see if there is actually anything to study when we look at the "social behavior" o...
Air Date: 2014-01-01
Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could just sit and watch a movie about the universe and see how everything unfolded? ...
Air Date: 2015-01-01
Each year, over 2000 people apply for jobs in Antarctica, but few are successful. What are the physical and psycholog...
Air Date: 2013-01-01
Take a look at the Voyager unmanned space probes launched in the 1970's -- and where they are now after 36 years of t...
Air Date: 2013-01-01
Titanium implants are a favorite among surgeons. They're light, durable and strong and readily accepted by the human ...
Air Date: 2015-01-01
In a family reunion like no other, astronomers reunite our sun with her long lost sibling. Dr Graham Phillips meets t...
Air Date: 2015-01-01
Dr Graham Phillips investigates new technology that is able to convert more than 40 per cent of the sun's light into ...
Air Date: 2015-01-01
Thousands of chemicals are used in everyday products – in our water, our food and in the air we breathe. It’s the che...
Air Date: 2015-01-01
Good to know as you travel to the Antipodes - Australia has the most venomous snakes and spiders in the world. But, i...
Air Date: 2015-01-01
What is memory? How do our memories change from childhood to adulthood? How we can build up greater brain reserves t...
Air Date: 2015-01-01
Is there anyone out there? Does the popular movie quote 'ET phone home' have any substance? Astronomers have been poi...
Air Date: 2013-01-01
How can a supercomputer can help researchers to a better understanding of the poliovirus at an atomic level? This ha...
Air Date: 2014-01-01
It's amazing to think that in the 1900s a mere tenth of the world's population lived and worked in cities. Now it is ...
Air Date: 2013-01-01
The promise of quantum computers is that what would otherwise take a billion years to calculate, could be done in a f...
Air Date: 2013-01-01
Think spiders aren't beautiful? Then think again! The colorful and beautiful jumping Peacock Spider, native to Aust...
Air Date: 2014-01-01
In the western world there’s an epidemic of allergies. Could it be that our lifestyles are too clean? And that we’re ...
Air Date: 2013-01-01
There’s no doubt that cardiac implants or stents save lives. They unblock arteries to prevent heart attacks. But beca...
Air Date: 2014-01-01
It seems that the bee population crisis is intricately tied to the way we have changed our planet. Catalyst investiga...
Air Date: 2013-01-01
This special report looks at the domino effect of environmental and atmospheric factors that drive the globe to wette...
Air Date: 2011-01-01
By building see-through flowers, researchers at the University of Connecticut have captured high-speed, high-magnific...
Air Date: 2013-01-01
Cuneiform documents in clay cover everything from political affairs to economic practices, from 3400BC right up to th...
Air Date: 2014-01-01
Fifty meters beneath the teeming mega-city of Tokyo is an underworld river system - 6.4km of tunnels, colossal water ...
Air Date: 2013-01-01
Performance-enhancing drugs aren't limited to just sport and increasing your physical prowess. There are substances t...
Air Date: 2011-01-01
A short video on this phenomenon of nature, particularly evident in deep ocean animals.
Air Date: 2014-01-01
By investigating the tell-tale signs of earthquakes and tsunamis written into the landscape over the last thousand ye...