Our Changing World

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

Department of Conservation ranger Abi Liddy introduces Alison Ballance to shore plovers, black robins and other unique species. Read more Audio

Maurice Curtis uses samples from the Human Brain Bank to study the growing of new brain cells, or neurogenesis Audio

The joint Australia-NZ Whale Research Expedition is using non-lethal methods to study humpback and minke whales Audio

'After the outfall' is an inter-disciplinary study looking at the effect of diverting wastewater out of the Heathcote Estuary Audio

IRL's Jeff Tallon, with colleague Bob Buckley, received the Prime Minister's Science Prize for their work on superconductors Read more Audio