Our Changing World

A new gel has been developed that is 85% water but can be stretched many times and hit with a hammer without disintegrating Read more Audio

New Zealand is home to the world's only luminescent freshwater limpet, which lives among the rocks in North Island streams. Read more Audio

Katherine Clements talks about her experience of volunteering for the Department of Conservation and working with seabirds Read more Audio

Black petrels are a common sight at sea in the Hauraki Gulf, and are at risk from being accidentally caught by recreational and commercial fishers Read more Audio

This programme marks the 50th anniversary of Scott Base, New Zealand's science station in Antarctica, which was established in 1957. Read more Audio

The kaka from Zealandia Sanctuary are an urban success story, but they are developing lead poisoning, probably from chewing roofing nails and old lead paint. Read more Audio

Massey University zoologist Anne Wignall explains how web-building spiders use vibrations to communicate and to make sense of their world. Read more Audio

A new study shows that yellow-eyed penguins colonised New Zealand within just a few decades of the Waitaha penguin becoming extinct Read more Audio

A gravimeter is an instrument that measures local gravity and Mikkel Andersen is developing one that uses atoms instead of springs or light Read more Audio

Glenfern Sanctuary is the vision of the late Tony Bouzaid to restore the forest and wetlands of Great Barrier Island, and inspire other people to become involved in conservation Read more Audio

After six weeks in the Southern Ocean, scientists return with thousands of blue whale call recordings and hundreds of samples. Read more Audio

One of New Zealand's little known claims to natural history fame is that for its area it has more species of land snails than any other temperate country Read more Audio