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The site of international intervention is a crucial shipping channel in the global economy. Audio

Auckland hip-hop artist and academic Mazbou Q is becoming an international authority on the burgeoning science of rap. Video, Audio

Sweeping job cuts across financially strained universities are heaping pressure on the science sector.  Audio

Researchers are piecing together what they know about Auckland's extensive network of rare lava caves.

Tāmaki Makaurau is built on a large, potentially active, volcanic field made up of 53 volcanoes.

It's a scandal of international proportions. A professor of chemistry at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania claims to have found the recipe for a perfect cup of tea.

It involves a pinch of salt and… Audio

Giant kelp is disappearing from Wellington Harbour. Love Rimurimu is aiming to restore lush underwater kelp forests with an ambitious and collaborative replanting effort. Claire Concannon dives in to… Audio

Though often overlooked because of their gender, women botanists have made huge contributions to our knowledge of the natural world over the last 300 years. Audio

Giant kelp is under pressure. Can an ambitious underwater forest planting effort help restore this disappearing ocean ecosystem? Audio

Kiwi Melissa Gunn is one of the winners of an international short story competition, Imagine 2200: climate fiction for future ancestors, run by American magazine Grist. Audio

Evolutionary biologist Distinguished Professor Hamish Spencer has received international recognition as a new Fellow of the International Science Council (ISC). He's received the highest honour to be… Audio

Science communicator Allan Blackman on how diabetes patients may soon have a new treatment option that doesn't include needles or insulin pumps.  Audio

It's not the rarest, brightest or most practical metal yet for millennia humans have dug and dug and dug in search of this precious resource. Audio

Why do flies want to get inside our houses so bad? Why do mosquitoes bite some people and not others? And why oh why is New Zealand home to so many creepy crawlies? Audio

The different "plaque trajectories" of good, so-so and very bad teeth-brushers in The Dunedin Study confirm dental hygiene is a long game that rewards commitment, says Otago University professor… Audio

Naomi Alderman is a British author whose fourth novel The Power was a New York Times best seller. Made into a Netflix series released last year, Alderman's science-fiction thriller tells the story of… Audio

Nisha Shankar is chief training officer at NASA's Johnson Space Centre. She takes astronauts who are fresh out of basic training and teaches them the skills they need to thrive on the International… Audio