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Daisy the Cow, Vitamin supplements. Audio

Kerry Swanson has just released a series of three books of 3D images that explore the fascinating biological world - including bugs, plants, fungi and fossils - which is unseen and unknown by most. Audio

Director of Centre for Energy Research at Massey University, Ralph Sims with some advice on how to keep fuel consumption down in the car. Audio

The Fire in their Eyes: evolutionary tinkering in the on-going arms race between predators and prey; and Queens of the Desert: naked mole rat, which may be a mammal, but keeps warm like reptiles and… Audio

Professor Jean Fleming from the University of Otago on the biology of sleeping and waking. Audio

We think we are free to choose what to believe but University of Otago philosopher Alan Musgrave challenges this notion Audio

Simon Pollard discusses why males are bizarre and why they evolved. Audio

Simon tells us how honey bees from Japan and Cyprus have evolved a defence that is just the bee's knees when it comes to defending their nests against a formidable predator - hornets. Audio

Professor Jean Fleming is a Endocrinologist at the Otago Medical School and she talks about our sense of touch. Audio

A day doesn't go by without some weather. Audio

Looking at a recent discovery of redback spider DNA in a katipo and what this could mean for the katipo. Also, how likely is it that the redback will become widely established in New Zealand? Audio

When chimps and human ancestors split about four million years ago, what was it that led to the enormous intellectual gap between us and our closest living relative? Audio

Dr Shaun Hendy is taking it back to basics to explain how stuff works. Audio

Simon explains some of the extraordinary lengths that animals will go to in order to escape the grasp of a predator. Audio

Steven Joyce's road plans from an energy engineering perspective. Audio

Mysophilia - a psychological condition involving an abnormal attraction to dirt, filth, and germs. Audio

David discusses if we should believe the "margin of error" number stated on opinion polls and how silence in spoken communication can carry meaning, and the implications of both for the NZ election. Audio

Jean Fleming takes us on a journey to explain why the human body is what it is. Audio

Designing an advertising campaign for non-human primates, and why human females do better than males in tests on recognising emotions or relationships among people. Audio

Simon Pollard looks at whether gossip is the human version of primate grooming, and suggests an evolutionary explanation for why so much of our conversations involve gossip. Audio

Explanations and implications with severe weather forecaster Erick Brenstrum and tonight we hear how the weather helped save Queen Elizabeth from the Spanish in 1588. Audio

A day doesn't go by without some weather, explanations and implications with severe weather forecaster Erick Brenstrum... it's been the season for tropical storms. Audio

Why do French words sound romantic and German words sound aggressive? Audio

The mechanics of hair dressing and professional wedding planning. Audio

Physicist and deputy director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Dr Shaun Hendy, is taking it back to basics to explain how stuff works. Audio