Our Changing World

Michelle Dickinson uses diamonds to indent materials at the nano-scale, to test the mechanical properties of samples Read more Audio

A mathematical model helped identfiy a bottleneck and decrease the number of cardiac surgery cancellations Audio

Science communication student Katherine Lyttle heads to the University of Otago dentistry school to find out about root canals Audio

Cancer geneticist Parry Guilford and student Tyler McInnes discuss epigenetics, or how the environment affects genes. Audio

University of Otago science communication student Monique Francois explains why taking a number of short intense exercise sessions may be better than one long moderate one Read more Audio

Science communication student Brandon Gantt talks with Warren Tate about ME Audio

Glenn Colquhoun performs one of his poems about German naturalist Ernst Dieffenbach Audio

Bryony James and Sharon Ngu have been trying to see whether fracture toughness can be used to quantify the "snap" of chocolate Audio

A metagenomics study looking at microbes in soils around New Zealand collected by secondary school students Read more Audio

Hinemoana Baker reads her transit-inspired poem Taranga's Song Audio

Film academic Roger Horrocks explains his family's quest to find out if 17th-century astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks is a relative Audio

An update on some of 2012's stories: tagged great white sharks, Kermadec pumice & fluttering shearwater translocation Audio