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New Zealand is set to get a new Maori science academy. The Massey Science Academy - Pūhoro - is the first of its kind, and will open next year. It will work with Maori secondary school pupils from… Audio

Highlights from RNZ National's programmes for the week ending Friday 18 December. This week.... fun with mathematics, it's a hundred years since Einstein's ground-breaking Theory of General Relativity… Audio

Winner of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Raw Comedy Championship in 1996, while studying for a PhD in Pure Mathematics at Sydney University, who went on to host breakfast radio shows. He… Audio

In the age of mass surveillance, computer scientists need a stronger code of ethics to prevent a dystopian future, says a US cryptographer visiting New Zealand to warn of the dangers. Audio

Making the numbers add up is Dr. Dillon Mayhew from Victoria University's School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research... statistics and probability, and how humans are not very good at… Audio

Two hundred high school students in Tonga who were at risk of failing school have graduated with new skills thanks to a joint initiative with New Zealand. The Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT)… Audio

Scientists in the region are setting their sights on the parasite Plasmodium Vivax as the key to realising the Pacific's aim to eradicate malaria. Audio

1. DARROCH BALL to the Minister for Social Development: Does she stand by all her statements?
2. GRANT ROBERTSON to the Minister of Finance: Is it correct that according to Statistics New Zealand figures…

Motu's director Adam Jaffe responds to the government's science funding strategy and discusses recent research into the efficacy of the Marsden Fund. Audio

Palmerston North raised journalist Motoko Kakubayashi now resides in Tokyo and works for University of Tokyo's Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, Japan's pop. 126,434,964… Audio

Can maths provide a much better account of human thinking than traditional models?

Co-author of Quantum Models of Cognition and Decision Prof. Peter Bruza from the Information Systems School of… Audio

Our official number cruncher is back to talk about the Millennium Prize Problems. Solve one of them and strike it rich. Grigori Perelman solved the Poincare Conjecture, but he didn't take the money. Audio

Can image analysis detect the hand of the Old Masters like Giotto or Rembrandt? The pioneering Belgian physicist and mathematician, Ingrid Daubechies has the answers. She is in New Zealand, as the… Audio