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Would you apply for a job in the Antarctic? Mark Horstman looks into the physical and psychological profiles of successful applicants. Dr Maryanne Demasi inv... read more

Recent research suggests leaded petrol emissions may be behind a rise in violent crime rates. Anja Taylor investigates current sources of lead exposure and i... read more

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 skie... read more

Dr Jonica Newby tries her luck at passport fraud and Dr Graham Phillips investigates the effectiveness of anti-venom for red back spider and brown snake bites.

Tamiflu: Imagine a Hollywood doomsday scenario - a flu pandemic sweeps the world, hundreds of millions of people are infected. How prepared are we for a flu... read more

Super Solar Cells: Dr Graham Phillips investigates new technology that is able to convert more than 40 per cent of the sun's light into electricity. This is... read more

What is memory? In this episode of Catalyst, Anja Taylor investigates how our memories change from childhood to adulthood and how we can build up greater bra... read more

Are we beating our horses to the finish line? Dr Jonica Newby investigates. And in a world first, a lab under the Antarctic ice puts the sea floor to the aci... read more

Thousands of chemicals are used in everyday products – in our water, our food and in the air we breathe.

Regardless of the ever present risk of sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy, condoms are still a hard sell. A chance discovery on the banks of the Dar... read more

Anja Taylor investigates the science behind low volume, high intensity fitness training, and takes on the challenge of going from couch slouch to fighting fi... read more

This special episode investigates new research analysing facial expressions, voice and body posture that may be the key to diagnosing depression.

Can obesity be treated as a chronic inflammatory disease? Mark Horstman explores these emerging fields of science, and meets ordinary people in their daily s... read more

NASA is currently planning to send astronauts to the red planet, and private company Mars One has volunteers who want to go there and never come back. The... read more

Advances in medicine have propelled health care to new heights. But are we getting too much of a good thing? Dr Maryanne Demasi examines how our relentless p... read more

Sex is the spark that ignites many relationships. It seems to fade more quickly in women. Dr Newby investigates the science of female libido, as she asks - w... read more

To celebrate 100 years since Einstein's theory of General Relativity we visit three 'big physics' facilities where scientists are hoping to prove a predictio... read more

We explore the recent extraordinary cases of virgin births in animals and find out whether humans could spontaneously clone themselves. Reporter Anja Taylor ... read more

Millions of people are giving up gluten in pursuit of better health. In this special investigation, Dr Maryanne Demasi cuts through the hype of the gluten fr... read more

In the final Catalyst for 2015, the team look at the scientific discoveries and innovations being made to ensure sharks and humans can co-exist.