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Pacific woman wins biennial Zonta science award
The Zonta Club of Wellington has awarded this year's Biennial Zonta Science Award to a Pacific woman.
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NZ govt challenged to make economy more equitable for Pasifika
Upending of the economy and society by the Covid-19 pandemic could be an opportunity to reset the New Zealand economy in a more equitable way for Pasifika.
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Celebrating Women in Mathematics
Audio 12 May 2020Dillon Mayhew is celebrating Women in Mathematics. Audio
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'Humans are an African species'
Broadcaster, science writer and 'recovering geneticist' Adam Rutherford has also just recovered from something else: Covid-19. We'll speak to him about the experience and about his new book How To… Audio
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Covid-19: What will the 'new normal' in politics look like?
Analysis - The Covid-19 epidemic is doing strange things to the political landscape. What is the "new normal" going to look like and how will it affect the election?
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Contact tracing capacity 'a mathematical impossibility'
The Opposition has taken to pouring doubt on the Health Ministry's assertion it can trace 5000 people a day who have had contact with a Covid-19 carrier. Audio
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Extreme caution advised on lockdown D Day
Contact tracing expert Professor Philip Hill is warning the government must be very careful before it decides to drop the strict Covid-19 alert level down to level 3. Yesterday the Ministry of Health… Audio
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Neil Gaiman happily stuck in New Zealand due to Covid-19
Author Neil Gaiman has been coming to NZ for appearances for years now, but he never envisaged he'd be locked down here for the better part of a month along with his wife, musician Amanda Palmer and… Audio
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Covid-19: How long does it take to recover?
Covid-19 is a new disease, but already there are signs it may take a long time for some patients to fully recover.
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Maths, models & insights into the coronavirus pandemic
Mathematician Alex James, from Te Pūnaha Matatini & the University of Canterbury, explains the art and science of modelling the coronavirus pandemic. Audio
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Maths, models & insights into the coronavirus pandemic
Mathematician Alex James, from Te Pūnaha Matatini & the University of Canterbury, explains the art and science of modelling the coronavirus pandemic.
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Our Changing World for 16 April 2020
Alison Ballance chats with mathematician Alex James, who has been helping model the coronavirus pandemic in New Zealand. Audio
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Maths explains why lockdowns could drag on
There's a reason Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison says his country's households may have to self-isolate for another six months.
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Duckworth-Lewis inventor dies
Tony Lewis, who co-devised what became known as the Duckworth-Lewis method in cricket, has died at the age of 78.
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How is Covid 19 tracking in New Zealand
Mick Roberts, Professor in Mathematical Biology, Massey University, Auckland, says while today's total of Covid cases has reached 797, the curve has not yet flattened Audio
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The Panel with Michele A'Court and David Slack (Part 1)
Audio 2 Apr 2020Wendyl Nissen joins the discussion on Bauer Media closing it's New Zealand arm, shutting down some of the countries longest running weekly magazines. Mick Roberts, Professor in Mathematical Biology… Audio
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When will we reach peak covid?
Mick Roberts from Massey University is a Professor in Mathematical Biology who has published over a hundred papers on modelling epidemics. He talks to Kathryn Ryan about why every single contact we… Audio
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Teachers respond to challenge of online learning
Teachers are in class today for the last time before the lockdown begins and they are all preparing exactly the same lesson for the nation's 800,000 school children.
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Beating Covid-19: Grim period of isolating ourselves may lie ahead
New Zealanders could be facing up to 18 months of social isolation if Covid-19 takes hold in this country.
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Covid-19 spread in NZ: Answering the big questions
As the health system deals with the Covid-19 coronavirus spread in New Zealand, experts reveal how patients are being treated and likelihood of the disease infecting many more.
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The Mathematics of Climate Change
Audio 3 Mar 2020Nights' mathematician Dillon Mayhew joins us once again. Tonight he's taking a look at the mathematics of climate change. Audio
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Feilding robotics students head to the world championships
What did you get up to at high school? Did you get to build any robots? Feilding High School maths teacher Graham Conlon is also the school's head of robotics and his team are on a roll. Audio, Gallery
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Pioneering NASA mathematician dies at 101
Katherine Johnson, the pioneering NASA mathematician who inspired the film Hidden Figures, has died at the age of 101.
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Disease modeller says Covid-19 risk to NZ is very low
Sara Del Valle is an applied mathematician and disease modeller. She and other disease modellers have gazed into their computers to see the future of Covid-19 and the news, in her opinion, is not bad… Audio
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Summer maths classes attract West Auckland students
Māori and Pasifika children don't often see themselves reflected in the maths problems presented in classrooms, says Massey University maths lecturer Jodie Hunter. This summer, she and her mother… Video, Audio, Gallery
