Lagrange Point

Can humanity evolve to adapt to a changed climate? Can we survive a mass extinction? Is it even possible to geo-engineer our planet to hit a terran sized reset button? All this and more on Part 2 of our Global Challenges special!

How do we feed a planet with a growing population? In Part 1/4 of our Global Challenges series, we explore how we can feed the planet now and into the future using science! Is a meal in a pill a viable option? Should we not eat meat? What about genetic modification of crops? Or is Entomophagythe answer?

What's the fairest way to slice up a cake? Is just winning even worse than loosing by a big margin? Who just made history and broke the mathematics glass ceiling? Find out all this and more in our mathematical Lagrange Point!

What's causing these massive abyssal rifts to form in Siberia? What's the hottest part of the sun? Is space really empty? All of these questions have seemingly simple answers but are in fact very complicated. Don't worry Lagrange Point is here to shed light on these mysteries!

Running short of fresh air? Take a leaf out of Julian Melchiori's book and fashion yourself some photosynthesising silk! We also have an update on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and how the world is responding to this deadly virus.

Do you share more genes in common with your friends than with a stranger? What mysterious source of x rays is at your desk? What deep sea monster needed some extra help from a pair of spectacles? All this and more in this week's episode of Lagrange Point.

What colour is so dark that it absorbs almost all light? Why it's the nanotech vantablack! We also find out about bacteria that chow down on electricity!

Some creatures want to watch the world burn, and have crazy schemes to hunt their prey, like fishing spiders. Others protect the animals around them and save countless lives like elephants! We explore super hero and super villain animals in this week's episode!

We bend it like Beckham and find out how footballers pull off those tremendous shots using incredibly intricately designed balls. We also find out if the world cup could be played in space and by robots!

We take a penalty kick for goal, as we dive into our World Cup Special! In part one we tackle the science behind making a catchy theme song stay in your head. Plus we find out what mathematical paradox is proven by world cup squads!

Meet some mysterious creatures live on the boundaries of existence as we find out about newly discovered species such as the skeleton shrimp, dragon trees and gelatinous cubes. We also find out about some new ways to treat cancer using nanotech.

Scientists from many different disciplines have come together to solve the case of a mysterious disease that breaks the hearts of young children. We also find out how we can use novel and innovative ways to detect and treat cancer using measles vaccines and mans best friend!

Ever felt so hungry you would eat a planet? Sometimes stars eat their own planets! We also find out about fungus that can clean the earth by literally eating pollution! We also find out what Australia has stolen from New Zealand for far too long.

Invaders are lurking around every corner! Parasites, Viruses and Bacteria! Learn how your body fights back and some cutting edge research to improve the strength of the invaders defense force!

Want to help fight cancer with lasers? Interested in getting involved in cutting edge lab research whilst still an undergraduate? This week we learn about pathways into science and research with examples from one of our presenters.

What mysterious noise from the depths of the oceans confused scientists for decades? If the winter Olympics where held on Titan, could the contestants take off? Can we make force fields a reality? Find out all this and more on this week's Lagrange Point.

What if you went to be a jock and woke up a maths genius? How can our brains visualise complicated mathematics? We also find out about the newest element in the periodic table!

The third installment of Lagrange Point Live where we look at some zany scientific kickstarters and mythconceptions. Who wanted to build a giant cereal gun and can robots really tell jokes? Tune in to find out. This episode was recorded live as a panel game show at the YSA Melbourne Open day on April 12th 2014. Check out our previous parts for more of the live panel show.

We catch a space dragon, chop the top off a mountain for an extremely large project, and find out how to walk on the surface of a star on this week's episode of Lagrange Point.

We find out which scientists took an odd career turn in part 2 of the Lagrange Point Panel show live in front of an audience at YSA Melbourne's Open Day. Which scientist missed out on the Olympics and won a nobel prize instead? What does James Bond gadgets have to do with WiFi and whats the connect between the filming of Star Wars and psychology research?

We bust some common science mythconceptions in part 1 of the Lagrange Point Panel show live in front of an audience at YSA Melbourne's Open Day. What's cooler a kettle or a meteorite? Where's the edge of space? Why do bulls charge at red? All of these in more as our panel busts myths to compete for points and glory!

Can you boost your learning by wearing thinking cap? Can you read someones mind through the combination of facial recognition and MRI machines? How do we know when to stop when we've had too much water? All this and more on this week's episode of Lagrange Point!

Can you tell someone is lying by looking them in the eyes? Just how many smells can our nose really tell apart? Can we automate creating and testing new crops with robots? Its a biotech fest this week on Lagrange Point.

Want to know how gravitational waves work and what their discovery means? So did we, so we had dinner with a physicist to find out more! We even explored the big unanswered questions around the big bang and how we can solve them with quantum computing.

How do we keep the our air planes safe in the sky? What science and engineering are used to manage corrosion and fatigue in our airplanes? What's the Australian connection to the safety feature Black Box?