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Hormones are not just the chemicals that make teenagers moody and impossible during puberty, they control metabolism, sleep, hunger and our immune systems.  Audio

Schools and parents always want the best for children, but researcher Rebekah Graham has opened a can of worms by denouncing rigid rules and expectations around school lunchbox food, particularly for… Audio

Ben Elms – aka Dr Compost – is a man passionate about the difference between dirt and soil. The key to great yields is 'superhero' soil and for that you'll need compost, he says. Video, Audio, Gallery

Rarotonga in the Cook Islands will have a new mobile health clinic servicing the island's thirteen thousand people, a first for the region. Audio

Before there was Netflix, before there was television, movies or radio, popular culture came between the covers of the popular periodical. Magazines like The Strand, Punch and the Boy's and Girl's Own… Audio, Gallery

When Dr Michael Mosley talks about diets that can change your life, people listen. He's written about fasting, sugar and now the microbiome. His book is called The Clever Gut Diet.  Audio

Samoa's old courthouse, one of the country's most historic buildings, is to be rebuilt and turned into a hotel. Audio

There are calls for a formal system to help the descendants of blackbirded Pacific Islanders find their relatives. Audio

Health workers in Papua New Guinea are calling for dramatic change as hospital shelves run bare. Audio

Maternal mortality rates in Papua New Guinea appear to have worsened over the past five years with the risk of dying during childbirth now estimated at 1 in 120 women. Audio

The latest life expectancy world rankings show Fiji has the highest death rate from diabetes in the world with 188 of 100,000 fatalities being attributed to the disease. Audio

Dr Nicola Gaston is the new co-director of the MacDiarmid Institute and an associate professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Auckland. Gaston was a senior lecturer in the School of… Audio

An advocate for political reform in the Cook Islands says candidates in the up coming general election on June the 15th need to voice their views on long standing recommendations for political reform.

Questions are being asked about the level of commitment the New Zealand government is showing to the mental health of its Pasifika community. Audio

Born in Gaza and raised in Al Nuseirat Refugee Camp, Dr Ramzy Baroud is a US-Arab journalist, media consultant, author and editor of the Palestine Chronicle. He is a non-resident scholar at Orfalea… Audio

An ongoing security crisis in Papua New Guinea's Hela province is preventing many earthquake-affected communties receiving relief. Audio

This week, local artist Luke Willis Thompson has been named as only the second-ever New Zealander to make the shortlist for the UK's Turner Prize, one of the world's most prestigious awards. The… Audio

Pacific Island nations have been central to efforts to get the international shipping industry to commit to reducing carbon esmissions. Audio

Returning to an issue that RNZ has been reporting on for the last few weeks - buildings at Middlemore Hospital that are full of rot and potentially dangerous mould. There's also asbestos present and… Audio

Dr Delwyn Moller worked her way from small town rural Waikato to “geek heaven” at Nasa. Now she’s returned to head a space science centre in Central Otago.

If you want to live a long healthy life – exercise, socialise and eat a Mediterranean-style diet, says medical academic and author of Ageing for Beginners Doug Wilson.

Dr Andrew Williams is a urologist with sub-specialist training in robotics and complex cancer surgery. He has received numerous awards and research grants and published many articles in peer reviewed… Audio

New Zealand's English-language rules are strangling the country's supply of early childhood teachers who speak Pasifika languages, threatening the future of Pasifika early childhood centres. Audio