Our Changing World

A panel discussion about the tricky task of measuring and predicting the contribution science makes to our lives Audio

Medical students have been surveying smoking on leased pavements outside city bars Audio

Public health researchers are concerned that smoking and secondhand smoke continue to be significant global health burdens Audio

Complexes of genes determine individual susceptibility to diseases and drugs Audio

Landcare Research is trialling urine from female possums as a possible new lure to improve trapping success Audio

Record global carbon dioxide levels, Generation Zero's hopes for a low carbon future and upcoming conference Audio

Honeybees can be trained to react to particular odours such as those emitted by caterpillar-infested apple trees Read more Audio

The NZ Virtual Herbarium is an online version of the data from 11 different herbaria Read more Audio

Maarten Kleintjes explains what happens to electronic evidence and how it is processed at the Electronic Crime Laboratory Read more Audio

An investigation into PTA, the 'plant destroyer' that is killing giant kauri trees Read more Audio

Bouncing fruit and volcanic eruptions are all in a day's work for Victoria University mathematician Mark McGuinness Read more Audio

Microbes can be sources of natural colours and flavours, and their growth can be manipulated when they are exposed to sound Read more Audio