Our Changing World

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

Marine sponges may yield drugs that could stop cancer cells dividing Read more Audio

Sooty shearwaters are great ocean travellers, and seabird scientists are using geolocators to record their journeys Read more Audio

Bee expert Mark Goodwin explains how a beehive works and the state of bees in NZ Read more Audio

An evolutionary history of one of our best-loved native plants, hebe, now known as Veronica Audio

Gloria Evans is developing a test which may significantly improve the success rate of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) Audio

A response to the government's announcement of 10 national science challenges Audio

University of Canterbury mechanical engineers are working on a exoskeleton which uses biological signals to move the leg Audio

Fossil dung is offering surprising insights into the life, diet and parasites of the extinct flightless giant bird the moa Read more Audio

Neil Dodsgon is trying to create machines that use observed epxressions and gestures to work out what a person is thinking Audio

Life in the Heathcote River recovered very quickly after millions of litres of raw sewage flowed in Read more Audio