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Emeritus Professor of Behavioural Genetics at the University of Sydney, Benjamin Oldroyd is an experimental scientist who has published more than three hundred scientific papers, mostly on honey bees… Audio

A parasitology research lab specialising in testing drugs for cryptosporidium is closing due to a lack of funding.

This in the same week a cryptosporidium outbreak plagues Queenstown residents with… Audio

The southern New Zealand dotterel is a true underdog of the bird world, with just 126 individuals at last population estimate. Claire Concannon tags along with a team of researchers attaching trackers… Audio

Queenstown's cryptosporidium outbreak continues to grow with forty confirmed cases. On top of that, there's ten probable cases and eight under investigation. The parasitic infection can cause severe… Video, Audio

Southern New Zealand dotterels are one of Aotearoa's most endangered birds, but we don't know where most of them go to breed. Claire Concannon meets a research team tagging the wader birds to uncover… Audio

Niki Bezzant heads down a protein-rich rabbit hole to investigate the carnivore or 'lion diet' much beloved of Mikhaila Peterson, daughter of controversial psychologist Jordan Peterson.

If you're exceptionally good games such as spot the difference, you might be a 'super-matcher' - one of the few people with the natural ability to accurately compare or match complex visual patterns.

How the food industry throws its weight - and its money - around in sport, politics, nutrition and education. Video

Are you a details person? A Canterbury University researcher is keen to find naturally gifted people with the “super abilities” required to match complex visual patterns without any training – and… Audio

Sarah Everts is fascinated by sweat. What it is, why our bodies do it and why there is a market for buying and selling artificial sweat - are all questions Sarah has answered. She's the author of The… Audio

A capsule containing fragments of the asteroid Bennu landed in a remote part of the Utah desert.

The container which was jettisoned from the space probe O-SIRUS REx landed safely in the desert at… Audio

After years of exploring the function of dreams, sleep scientist Mark Blagrove suspects human connection may be at the heart of our brain's unconscious storytelling. "Humans may have evolved to have… Video, Audio

We may never solve the question of what happens when our hearts stop and electrical activity in our brain flatlines, but science is giving this a good go now. Dr Sam Parnia is a British associate… Audio