Our Changing World

X-ray mammography, MRI and ultrasound can all find breast tumours - but actually locating them for biopsy or treatment can be a problem. Find out how analysing aircraft wings could help clinicians… Read more Audio

Margaret Brimble and her research team are trying to make new medicines by synthesising chemicals from nature Audio

KiwiStar Optics are making the largest optical lenses ever built in this country for an Australian astronomical project Audio

Joanna Putterill is investigating the genes that control flowering in plants, looking at things like day length and temperature Audio

A Waikato university team discovers a new mechanism of metabolic regulation in microbes. Audio

Martyn Nash and Angela Lee are modelling the human breast to track tissue motion to help clinicians to better detect tumours Audio

Antony Fairbanks and his team are interested in the sugars attached to the outside of cells as potential therapeutics Audio

Alison Ballance hunts for mudfish with Nick Ling and finds out about the restoration of Lake Kaituna Audio

It took PhDstudent Susanna Rutledge to recognise the role of sunlight in some unexplained results from her soil research Audio

What does it take to discover something? Does it take more than setting eyes on something for the first time? Audio

Bio-derived polymers made from corn starch could be reinforced with fibres such as hemp for strength and sustainability Audio

Daniel Hutchinson is creating polymer gel actuators which in the future might be used as artificial muscle in life-like robots Read more Audio