Our Changing World

Daryl Rowan and Martin Hunt are looking at apple flavours and aromas, to help breeders produce new apples with novel traits Audio

Sue Gardiner is screening for beneficial traits in plants to help breed new varieties with specific characteristics Audio

Mary Sewell and Shane Lavery have been sampling marine larvae and using DNA-based techniques to measure its diversity Audio

The University of Auckland's Jacqueline Beggs has been researching the ecology of honeydew and"sugar-based"forest ecosystems Audio

Harvard Medical School's Jorge Serrador is studying the impacts of the body's balance system on brain blood flow Audio

Robert Weinkove is working on a therapy for leukaemia which stimulates the body's own immune system to fight the cancer cells Read more Audio

NIWA's Stu Hanchet is studying Antarctic toothfish, a"keystone"species in the Ross Sea ecosystem Read more Audio

Olin Picher explains how the Cawthron Institute's oyster hatchery is expanding its production of Pacific oyster spat Read more Audio

Ajay Kapur has built various robotic instruments which can be programmed to improvise with human musicians Read more Audio

Extended version of the Musical Robots interview from 15 August on Our Changing World. Read more Audio

Matthew Gerrie is tracking the eye movements of eye witnesses to improve the criminal identification process Audio

Otago University scientists are developing new generation animal tracking systems that use GPS and mobile phone networks Audio