Our Changing World

Mike Wadsworth demonstrates some scientific glassblowing and explains what a necrodegradometer is. Audio

The Ornithological Society is completing the latest 2-year survey, building a 35 year picture of trends in species and numbers Audio

Nick Cave treats cats with skin cancer and John Munday wants to know if there is a link between the cancer and papillomaviruses Audio

The Cawthron Institute is breeding grey side-gilled sea slugs to find out how they produce highly poisonous tetrodotoxin Audio

Mathematicians are using new tools to reconstruct evolutionary relationships of organisms with DNA from several ancestors Audio

The Censeam seamount research team is reporting back to the Census of Marine Life 'Decade of Discovery' conference next week Audio

University of Otago scientists have developed a technique to reliably and consistently produce individually trapped atoms Audio

The University of Otago 'Feeding the Mind' science expo was part of the food-themed International Science Festival Audio

Massey University's Craig Johnson is recording electrical activity of the brain to determine if animals feel pain Audio

A team of researchers in Christchurch have developed a 3D virtual reality system to retrain the Parkinsonian brain Audio

How our eyes and brain perceive and interpret our own motion in a moving world intrigues researchers at Waikato University Audio

Michael Richardson is researching the psychology behind gang initiations using a modified coffee grinder and slaters Audio