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Chapter 1

Original Batmobile

James Bond

Driving Simulator

Vehicle Safety

 

Chapter 2

Early Metals

Niels Bohr

Periodic Table

Airships

Quarks

Radon

Geiger Counter

 

Chapter 3

Moh's Scale

Sapphires

Glowing Minerals

Precipitation

 

Chapter 4

Phosphorus

Ice Crystals

 

Chapter 5

Australian Scientists

Current

Measuring Current

Lightning

Capacitors

Why is it so

Healing LEDs

 

Chapter 6

Joule

Coal-fired Power Stations

Renewable Energy

Nuclear Power

Solar Chimney

 

Chapter 7

World solar challenge

Animal speeds

Sir Isaac Newton

Weights in space

Hydroelectric power

Einstein

 

Chapter 8

Images of DNA

Rosalind Franklin

Proteomics

Haemoglobin

 

Chapter 9

Skin cancer

Mitosis

Fruit Fly

Twin studies

 

Chapter 10

Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Great Rift Valley

Gold Smoke - Deep Sea

Gold Smoke - Smokin Movie

Black smoker chimneys

Riversleigh fossils

Geological time line

 

Chapter 11

Frogs

Dairy research

Ecological footprint

 

Chapter 12

Fingerprinting science

Luminol

DNA profiling

Solving a crime

 

Chapter 13

Light

Optical fibres

Australian Synchrotron

 

Chapter 14

Boy in bubble

Gene therapy

Relenza

 

Chapter 15

Garvan Institute

Glial cells

Neurotransmitters

Prion diseases

Brain Art Gallery

 

Chapter 16

Richard Feynman

Nano-images

Powering the world

Self-cleaning glass

Spider silk fibres