8:38 PM.Physicist from the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials & Nanotechnology, Dr Shaun Hendy strips it back to basics to explain how the universe works... the recent Nobel Prize winners in Physics… Read moreAudio
7:14 PM.NASA Watch editor and astrobiologist Keith Cowing raises an eyebrow at an awkward if not welcome "gift" of two spy-built telescopes to NASA, particularly as the American space agency bravely struggles… Read moreAudio
8:37 PM.Poet and educator at NMIT, Cliff Fell recites the influence of the "classic" poems and poets... rounding off our excursion through classical poetry with the nine muses. Audio
7:10 PM.How tone-deaf folk finding it hard to distinguish vocal emotions may actually be showing an evolutionary link that both music and language share the same brain 'circuitry,' with Professor Bill… Read moreAudio
8:40 PM.Our correspondent in India, pop. 1,170,938,000 (est. 2010) is Bangalore-based, Shoba Narayan... festivals of India - tonight, the celebration of Diwali - the festival of lights which marks the victory… Read moreAudio
7:12 PM.John Boon has had a life full of adventures - when a bit (lot) younger, he and a friend decided to sail from England to New Zealand through the Panama Canal, and then to celebrate the age of 60, he… Read moreAudio
9:10 PM.Dispelling the myth that inappropriate European-based practises are forcing vegetables to grow from a dustbowl, there's a conservation farming revolution happening in Australia - says CSIRO Plant… Read moreAudio
7:10 PM.Watching the action from the stands in Singapore, it's Bangkok based sports correspondent James Goyder. Tonight, Manny Pacquiao's upcoming fight. Audio
8:40 PM.What's your poison? Dr Leo Schep from the New Zealand National Poisons Centre about substances taken internally or applied externally that are injurious to health or dangerous to life... the most… Read moreAudio