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Nick Bollinger talks to Americana veteran Dave Alvin about his brother, the blues, and the songs of Big Bill Broonzy. Audio

A young engineer is using toys to encourage girls to pursue careers in science and technology Audio

Making the numbers add up is Dr Dillon Mayhew from Victoria University's School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research - mathematics is different from other sciences. Audio

Rod Downey highlights some of the factual inaccuracies in the movie The Imitation Game as well as describing some of Alan Turing's great achievements Audio

Seeta Gangadharan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Open Technology Institute in Washington DC. She discusses the automated systems, known as algorithms, that are replacing human discretion more and… Audio

Just in time for Valentine's Day weekend - Dr Hannah Fry tells Wallace the mathematical equation for love. Her new book The Mathematics of Love offers a unique perspective on matters of the heart. As… Audio

Melbourne based expat producer Jeremy Coubrough on the orbiting rhythms and internet soundscapes that fed into his new Tlaotlon album Natural Devices. Audio

The place of women in STEM - science, technology, engineering and mathematics - has received a lot of media coverage in the past couple of years. A 2011 report by the New Zealand Association of Women… Audio

Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, and author, who is visiting New Zealand as 2014 Distinguished Speaker for the Royal… Audio

Dame Anne Salmond discusses Maori relations with the ocean, comparing Te Whanau a Apanui's opposition to the oil company Petrobras' drilling ship to the time 250 years earlier when canoes headed out… Audio

A Sydney gambling centre is having huge success by presenting problem gambers with the facts - the extremely low mathematical likelihood that they're going to make a profit. Dr. Fadi Anjoul says… Audio

In this interview from 2004, Oxford University mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, who will be in New Zealand next week, discusses prime numbers. Audio

Eleven researchers have been awarded prestigious medals by the Royal Society of New Zealand. Audio