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Long Read: The MethaneSAT saga
By Eloise Gibson: How did New Zealand come to invest $29 million in a Bezos-backed methane satellite space plan? Audio
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Long Read: The MethaneSAT saga
By Eloise Gibson: How did New Zealand come to invest $29 million in a Bezos-backed methane satellite space plan?
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Pacific Waves for 27 October 2023
Podcast episode — 26 October 2023Cyclone Lola destroys schools and more than 10,000 homes in Vanuatu; covid leads to record high numbers of HIV cases in PNG; and more than 60 researchers are in Samoa to set up a Pacific science academy.
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Pacific Waves for 27 October 2023
Audio 27 Oct 2023Cyclone Lola destroys schools and more than 10,000 homes in Vanuatu; covid leads to record high numbers of HIV cases in PNG; and more than 60 researchers are in Samoa to set up a Pacific science… Audio
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The set up of a science academy in the Pacific labelled an 'important step'
The establishment of a Pacific Science Academy has been labelled an important step for the region. Audio
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Pacific news in brief for October 26
A round-up of news in brief from around the region.
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Banana plantations 'doomed' as fungal disease spreads - Northland grower
One of the world's most common banana varieties - Cavendish - is facing possible extinction, stoking concerns of a worldwide shortage. Audio
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The potential of plankton
Could your burger one day come with a plankton patty? Alison Ballance visits the Cawthron Institute's collection of more than 750 different strains of microalgae, where scientists are investigating… Audio
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The power of comic books
The power and potential of comic books is being realised with a new project at Auckland University. Audio
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The power of comic books
The power and potential of comic books is being realised with a new project at Auckland University.
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The potential of plankton
Could your burger one day come with a plankton patty? Alison Ballance visits the Cawthron Institute's collection of more than 750 different strains of microalgae, where scientists are investigating…
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Beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, a landscape frozen in time is revealed
From high above, the icy kingdom of Antarctica appears as a vast, flat wilderness. A white sheet, draped over the planet's southern pole.
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Our Changing World – Microalgae
A collection of 750 different microalgae – or phytoplankton – at the Cawthron Institute offers a treasure trove for researchers seeking new useful compounds. Alison Ballance visits the collection to… Audio
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Exploring the 'identity trap': Professor Yascha Mounk
What you are is not the whole story about who you are. Values rather than identity have always been the glue that holds democracies together. Before "woke" became a political slogan, professor Yascha… Audio
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Preview: Terror-Fi Festival
Dan Slevin previews three titles from Aotearoa’s number one festival celebrating genre films. Video
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Bioheritage science challenge teaching youth about biodiversity
Entries for the BioHeritage National Science Challenge closes later this evening. The competition gave kids young and old the opportunity to make and colour their own paper kanakana in the hopes of… Audio
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'World renowned' study still going after 50 years gets its third director
Moana Theodore will take over the long-running research project, following the death of former director Richie Poulton. Audio
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New Dunedin Study director named
The University of Otago this morning has named Moana Theodore as the new director for its famous research programme, the Dunedin Study.
The Otago epidemiologist is only the third director the study… Audio
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Maori health collaboration licence to cultivate mushrooms
Audio 24 Oct 2023A Maori health science collaboration which has just been granted New Zealands's first licence to cultivate an indigenous fungi containing psilocybin. Rangiwaho Marae, based south of Gisborne, is… Audio
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Fiji PM's fossil fuel comments 'harmful and destructive', climate network says
Pacific climate network, representing communities deeply impacted by the climate crisis, are disappointed with the recent remarks made by the Fiji PM regarding the fossil fuel industry.
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The warnings before NZ's spending on measuring cattle burps from space
How did New Zealand come to invest $29m in a Bezos-backed methane satellite space plan that will not improve New Zealand's methane estimates?
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Hearing, vision tests for students lead to 'significant transformation'
Wearing glasses for the first time or getting their hearing problems treated had been life changing for students at Edmund Hillary School - both inside and outside the classroom, according to…
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Auckland Anniversary floods: Computerised weather modelling performed poorly, review finds
Improving MetService's severe weather forecasts to accurately predict freak destructive storms, such as the Auckland Anniversary downpour, will take "substantial and ongoing investment".
That's one… Audio
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MetService on criticism: Auckland Anniversary flooding was 'unprecedented'
MetService is defending itself against criticism it was unable to forecast the extreme rainfall that led to deadly flooding in Auckland in January.
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Ted Cheeseman: Can AI and citizen science save our marine mammals?
Happywhale.com - a global database of of marine mammal images - harnesses the power of citizen science and rapid advancements in AI, to track some of the ocean's largest and most endangered creatures… Audio
