Our Changing World

Mangere Island in the Chathams has been the focus of New Zealand's most remote replanting project as Bridget Gibb explains Read more Audio

Graham Le Gros and Mali Camberis are studying hookworms in the hope of developing a vaccine as well as treatments for diseases Read more Audio

The book Plants that Poison is a guide to New Zealand's poisonous plants, from green potatoes to castor beans Read more Audio

University of Otago's Chris Sissons and Lisa Wong are using an artificial mouth to study dental plaque Read more Audio

At night Rangatira Island is alive with seabirds, wetas, spiders, and war whooping scientists catching Chatham petrels Read more Audio

Stan Roache has won the inaugral Prime Minister's Future Scientist Prize for his original work on the physics of light Read more Audio

In part two of the cicada story with Chris Simon, we find out about the evolutionary history of New Zealand's cicadas. Read more Audio

Using a nitrogen furnance, IRL's Ian Brown and Bill Owers are making high performance ceramics Read more Audio

Chatham petrels are one of the world's rarest seabirds, but simple innovative techniques have seen their numbers slowly recover Read more Audio

University of Auckland's Johanna Montgomery is recording the signals neurons sent to each other through the synapses Read more Audio

Cicada expert Chris Simon has five species of cicada in her Wellington garden, where she studies cicada biology and song. Read more Audio

Massey University PhD student Emile Webster is using sound to measure the density of things like kiwi fruit Read more Audio