Our Changing World

Scion has developed a bio-based adhesive to make fibreboard that is environmentally friendly and even compostable. Read more Audio

Bags of bone fragments are casting a genetic spotlight on New Zealand's lost natural world, and on the impact of early Polynesians on its biota. Read more Audio

A world-renowned fossil expert is concerned about the impact of a restructure at Te Papa on its important natural history collections. Read more Audio

A humanoid robot called Nao, and swarms of bio-inspired little robots that behave like social insects, wowed crowds at Dunedin's International Science Festival. Read more Video, Audio

Researchers say that liquid fuels made from sawdust from specially planted plantation trees could be a winner in New Zealand. Read more Audio

A southern right whale in Wellington Harbour is a sign that the species is recovering after being hunted nearly to extinction. Read more Audio

In the Water Engineering Laboratory at the University of Auckland, engineers are recreating rivers, to understand how water flows, and how floods behave. Read more Audio

Researchers at Scion hope that thousands of tiny kauri seedlings might include some that are resistant to kauri dieback disease. Read more Audio