Our Changing World

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

Chris Price reads one of the poems she wrote as part of the Transit of Venus exchange with German poets Audio

Volatile compounds in breath may allow researchers - and bees - to make diagnoses of diseases such as TB Read more Audio

University of Otago researchers decode the mitochondrial genome of the first people to arrive in New Zealand Read more Audio

Simon Malpas is monitoring chronic cardiovascular disease remotely in animal models Read more Audio

The 2011 Christchurch earthquakes and the sewage outfall diversion have had profound impacts on the Heathcote-Avon Estuary Read more Audio

David Winter, evolutionary geneticist and science blogger, goes in search of spineless life in his garden Audio

Dion O'Neale and Shaun Hendy have found that the distribution of different countries' patents are well-described by power laws Audio

The team behind the discovery of a new human species in Indonesia discusses the latest excavations and findings Audio

Acetic acid is the enemy of old textiles, but a chemist and museum conservator have found a way of rescuing fragile old cloaks Read more Audio

Different varieties of harakeke that are important for Maori weaving are being grown at Lincoln Audio