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1 online resource (streaming video file) (27 min. 51 sec.) ; 167050446 bytes |
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Maryanne Demasi controls the march of Dengue Fever; Derek Muller checks out scramjetting into space and Graham Phillips checks out the Voyagers' epic journey.On Catalyst this week; Dengue fever is ranked by the World Health Organization as the most important mosquito-borne viral disease in the world and the most rapidly spreading with a 30-fold increase in global incidence over the past 50 years. Maryanne Demasi joins an Australian team of researchers trying to control the march of Dengue Fever.Scramjets are air-breathing 'engines' capable of travelling at hypersonic speeds. They offer the future prospect of hypersonic access to space and potentially, even travel. Derek Muller drops in on the team at the Centre for Hypersonics at UQ to find out what they'll do, how they'll do it and why?If you're old enough, think back 36 years ... what were you doing in 1977? That's the year NASA's Voyagers 1 and 2 spacecraft headed on an epic tour of the solar system. Remarkably, the Voyagers are still sending back information. Graham Phillips gets a rare behind-the-scenes look at the control room of Canberra's Deep Space Communication Complex where the Voyagers' messages are downloaded |
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Broadcast 2013-06-20 at 20:00:00 |
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Classification: G |
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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Airplanes -- Scramjet engines.
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Clinical trials.
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Dengue -- Prevention.
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Hypersonic planes.
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Space vehicles.
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United States.
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Australia.
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Streaming video
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Demasi, Maryanne, reporter
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Muller, Derek, reporter
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Boyce, Russell, contributor
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Cally, Paul, contributor
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Cooper, Matt, contributor
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Creagh, Michael, contributor
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Faddy, Helen, contributor
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Lineweaver, Charley, contributor
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Lorrain, Philippe, contributor
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Nagle, Glen, contributor
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O'Mara, Lisa, contributor
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O'Neill, Scott, contributor
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Phillips, Graham, contributor
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Ritchie, Scott, contributor
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Tirtey, Sandy, contributor
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Turley, Andrew, contributor
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Young, Paul, contributor
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