Our Changing World for Thursday 24 July 2014

9:46 PM.The fourth mystery sound from the 2014-15 Our Changing World opening theme Audio

9:34 PM.NZAS president Nicola Gaston, CoRE director Shaun Hendy and University of Auckland bioinformatics professor Alexei Drummond discuss recent and proposed changes. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Owen Jones is researching metaplasticity in the brain and Shane Ohline is studying the creation of new neurons in the hippocampus Read more Audio

9:20 PM.By understanding how the brain stores and updates information, researchers hope to one day help people with Alzheimer's disease Read more Audio

9:06 PM.The Botany Department at the University of Otago has collaborated with MEA Mobile to make a smart phone app that uses the camera function to help identify native plants Read more Audio