Our Changing World

A tribute to Sir Graham Liggins, better known as Mont Liggins, who died this week on Tuesday 24 August Audio

Miriam Sharpe and Kurt Krause want to identify glow worms' light-emitting protiens for use in medical and other purposes Audio

University of Canterbury scientists are growing thin films in vacuum chambers to coat things like metal implants and space craft Audio

Hawaii-based ethnobotanist Art Whistler specialises in plants of the Pacific, especially useful plants moved by Polynesians Audio

Ecologist Mary McIntyre investigates mosquitoes, and the risk of mosquito-borne human diseases establishing in New Zealand Audio

Some young rocks in New Guinea are rising from deep in the mantle to the surface at rates of centimetres a year Audio

Maggie-Lee Huckabee is helping people with swallowing difficulties, such as stroke patient Derek Chapman who's making progress Read more Video, Audio

A Waikato University 'large river' research project is focusing on life in New Zealand's longest river Audio

Year 12 Christ's College students and their teacher Andrew Taylor explore Rutherford's Den with educator Claire Norton Audio

Margreet Vissers and Caroline Kuiper have found a mechanism which suggests that Vitamin C can prevent cancer. Audio

University research into paua is helping the East Otago Taiapure Local Fishery decide how to manage local shellfish stocks Audio

Vickie Shim and Kumar Mithraratne have developed a person-specific knee model which requires data from a gait analysis and MRI Audio