Our Changing World

New Plymouth's museum Puke Ariki is catalogueing its vast natural sceinces collections to make them more accessible to the public. Read more Audio

The genome of the North Island brown kiwi has just been published by an international team of researchers Read more Video, Audio

Ruth Beran's award-winning feature on sleep apnoea follows Maui Stewart to the sleep clinic on a journey to better health. Read more Audio

Do sea urchins live in a 'landscape of fear' and is the mere presence of predatory crayfish and snapper enough to change their behaviour? Read more Video, Audio

Veronika Meduna visits a salmon hatchery to find out more about how salmon are bred and farmed, and about the family tree of each fish. Read more Audio

As young people use screens more and more, public health researcher Sam Marsh is looking into how much food they are eating when using different media like computers and TVs. Read more Audio

A new study in rats shows that the link between high salt intake and high blood pressure is caused by changes in the brain Read more Audio

A baby colossal squid, studying under-ice algae in Antarctica, New Zealand sea lions, and a better fishing trawl net. Read more Video, Audio

After more than a decade of cleaning up Auckland's waterways and removing 22 shipping containers full of rubbish, the Sea Cleaners Trust is ready to tackle the rest of our coastline. Read more Audio

In his New Plymouth workshop, Trevor Bremner designs and produces the sshhmute, a practice mute for brass instruments Read more Audio

Susann Beier is using MRI and computational models to analyse flow of blood like fluid in 3D-printed replicas of coronary arteries with the aim of improving stent design Read more Audio

Long-nosed spookfish and other chimaeras are among a suite of weird, little known deep sea sharks that sport spiky sex organs on their head, enormous noses, fierce spines and long tails Read more Audio, Gallery