Catalyst

Meet Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, world-renowned primatologist, humanitarian, conservationist and UN Messenger of Peace.

Do sharks have friends? Watch and see if there is actually anything to study when we look at the "social behavior" of sharks off the coast of New Sou...

Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could just sit and watch a movie about the universe and see how everything unfolded? Thanks to a new scientifically ac...

Each year, over 2000 people apply for jobs in Antarctica, but few are successful. What are the physical and psychological attributes required to work...

Take a look at the Voyager unmanned space probes launched in the 1970's -- and where they are now after 36 years of travel! Voyager I is the furthest...

Titanium implants are a favorite among surgeons. They're light, durable and strong and readily accepted by the human body. But with each surgery comes...

In a family reunion like no other, astronomers reunite our sun with her long lost sibling. Dr Graham Phillips meets the new relative and explores its...

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 more than do...

Thousands of chemicals are used in everyday products – in our water, our food and in the air we breathe. It’s the chemical soup of modern life and it’...

Good to know as you travel to the Antipodes - Australia has the most venomous snakes and spiders in the world. But, if you’re bitten, can you rely on...

What is memory? How do our memories change from childhood to adulthood? How we can build up greater brain reserves to power our mind into old age? Br...

Is there anyone out there? Does the popular movie quote 'ET phone home' have any substance? Astronomers have been pointing their radio telescopes at t...

How can a supercomputer can help researchers to a better understanding of the poliovirus at an atomic level? This has implications for understanding...

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 over half. With soaring populati...

The promise of quantum computers is that what would otherwise take a billion years to calculate, could be done in a few seconds. First-generation qua...

Think spiders aren't beautiful? Then think again! The colorful and beautiful jumping Peacock Spider, native to Australia, will change your mind.

In the western world there’s an epidemic of allergies. Could it be that our lifestyles are too clean? And that we’re not exposing ourselves to bugs th...

There’s no doubt that cardiac implants or stents save lives. They unblock arteries to prevent heart attacks. But because the body treats stents as for...

It seems that the bee population crisis is intricately tied to the way we have changed our planet. Catalyst investigates how modern agriculture method...

This special report looks at the domino effect of environmental and atmospheric factors that drive the globe to wetter, hotter, drier and colder extre...

By building see-through flowers, researchers at the University of Connecticut have captured high-speed, high-magnification images of the remarkable to...

Cuneiform documents in clay cover everything from political affairs to economic practices, from 3400BC right up to the time of Christ. But can modern...

Fifty meters beneath the teeming mega-city of Tokyo is an underworld river system - 6.4km of tunnels, colossal water tanks, massive pillars, giant pum...

Performance-enhancing drugs aren't limited to just sport and increasing your physical prowess. There are substances that could improve your mind power...

A short video on this phenomenon of nature, particularly evident in deep ocean animals.

By investigating the tell-tale signs of earthquakes and tsunamis written into the landscape over the last thousand years, Japanese scientists are rewr...