Our Changing World

University of Auckland scientists are tweaking the chemistry of small, highly-coloured, ring-shaped molecules called porphyrins Audio

With less than 1% of its natural vegetation remaining, Hamilton city is working hard to restore urban biodiversity Audio

Little penguins are thriving in Wellington Harbour, thanks to nest boxes and regenerating forest on Matiu-Somes Island. Read more Audio

At the Massey Genome Service, genomes are sequenced and fed into research as varied as ancestral junk RNA and food poisoning Audio

Philip O'Connor is studying the momentum effect by looking at horses as if they were financial stocks over time Audio

Vladimir Golovko explains how nano-scale particles of gold show promising new properties as catalysts Audio

PhD student Celia Kueh is developing computer models to test packaging failure in corrugated cardboard boxes Read more Audio

Industrial mathematician Graeme Wake is an expert in the maths of spontaneous combustion, and the 'theory of ignition' Read more Audio

Massey University's Bill Williams and Stephen Keen demonstrate how laser beams can be used to pick up tiny objects and move them Audio

Plant and Food Research's Natural Extracts team find novel high-value uses for molecules found in fish waste, such as Omega 3 Audio

We think we are free to choose what to believe but University of Otago philosopher Alan Musgrave challenges this notion Audio

At the University of Canterbury, a virtual patient allows students to learn how to test hearing in a simulated audiology booth Audio