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Marketing expert Dr Mike Lee has kept a ten-year watch on the anti-vaccination movement. In this illuminating talk, he explores how we could develop herd immunity against harmful misinformation. Video, Audio

Dr Laura Jean McKay from Massey University's College of Humanities and Social Sciences, has just won one of the world's most prestigious science fiction writing awards, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, for… Audio

A satellite tag which unexpectedly kept working for a year has followed the journey of one tohora southern right whale as he ventured 15,000km from the Auckland Islands across three oceans. Bill - as… Audio

Emergency department doctors say patients infected with Covid-19 are being wrongly classified as low-risk, because of Delta's unusual symptoms, and that could be exacerbating the likelihood of… Audio

Dr Grant Morris looks at how the debate emerged and what it tells us about the NZ psyche. Audio

Doug Wilson is a medical academic author and our regular correspondent from the other side of 80. Wilson graduated from Otago University 60 years ago, and since then there have been significant… Audio

He helped eradicate smallpox with the World Health Organization, and renowned epidemiologist Dr Larry Brilliant says getting the Delta variant under control requires a similar massive global effort. Audio

It's been hard for kids to feel motivated during the pandemic, and it's been hard on families as well, especially with people trying to do so many different things in shared spaces. But there are also… Audio

Christchurch’s Jenny Clarke has been ranked the number one women’s croquet player in the world for most of the last 15 years. Dr Clarke is a senior lecturer in sports science at the University of… Audio, Gallery

Sometimes it takes just one simple thing to improve your health. The popular host of BBC science programmes, Dr Michael Mosley, looks at the science behind the little things you can do to boost your… Audio

Dr Sue Stuart-Smith is a psychiatrist, psychologist, gardener and literature lover who, in her much hailed UK bestseller The Well Gardened Mind brings all her passions together to look at the… Audio

Sydney-based New Zealander Dr Matt Baker joins the show for a chat about some of the latest science news. This week he looks at elephant trunks, and the work of the Mars rover Perseverance. Audio

For years female country artists in North America have been told by radio programmers that they are the "tomatoes" of an all-male salad. In other words, they are the garnish and their music should be… Audio

A controversial law dubbed the 'Heartbeat Bill' has come into effect in the US State of Texas this week after the Supreme Court did not respond to an emergency appeal by abortion providers. The… Audio

Because the terrorist was under surveillance, police were in position to shoot him and end the knife attack within 60 seconds of it starting. That was a quick response according to Dr John Battersby.

An investigation is underway after a Covid-19 positive man escaped from an Auckland MIQ facility and travelled more than 12km.

There 49 new Delta cases in the community today, bringing the cluster… Audio

Today Victoria University Historian Dr Grant Morris looks at The history of political neutrality in NZ's public service. The issue of political neutrality and NZ's public service has been in the news… Audio

The daily Covid-19 case count has taken another slide today - 49 infections have been reported in the last 24 hours - the lowest number in six days.

Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield… Video, Audio

Dr Kirsten Zemke is back for this week's music feature, which looks at unusual time signatures in songs.  Audio

The Coronavirus is here forever. This is how we live with it. That was the rather foreboding headline from a recent article in The Atlantic which quoted a number of leading medical authorities… Audio

Covid-19 has seen Sydney investigative journalist and broadcaster Dr Norman Swan thrust into a role as arguably Australia's most well-known doctor and a trusted voice in the long pandemic. He joins us… Audio

As many as 170 Afghan people and 13 American troops are being reported as having been killed in a blast outside Kabul's international airport on Thursday night. Dr Srinjoy Bose is a Senior Lecturer in… Audio

Sally Langley has blazed a trail into her new role - she's the second New Zealand woman to head up the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. In her 'day job' Christchurch-based Dr Sally Langley is a… Audio