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Our attention spans and emotions are not the only thing impacted by our digital 21st century life and evolution is having a hard time keeping up. Manoush Zomorodi is the host of the TED Radio Hour on… Audio

Freshwater ecologist, environmental science researcher and activist Dr Mike Joy is a well known outspoken voice in the need for our society to make radical changes to deal with our major environmental… Audio

The first 1000 days are the most important of our lives - why? Because in those first three years of life our brain is rapidly changing and developing, our neuroplasticity is at its peak. It was once… Audio

In the space of a few short years, discussions around 'anxiety' and 'feeling anxious' have entered the mainstream. While the rise in anxiety among humans is a well-documented phenomenon, the similarly… Audio

By Eloise Gibson: How did New Zealand come to invest $29 million in a Bezos-backed methane satellite space plan? Audio

Cyclone 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

The establishment of a Pacific Science Academy has been labelled an important step for the region. Audio

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

The power and potential of comic books is being realised with a new project at Auckland University.  Audio

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

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

Dan Slevin previews three titles from Aotearoa’s number one festival celebrating genre films. Video

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

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