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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

John Gerritsen explores why NZ school students have slumped in maths and science Audio

This term, 10-thousand Year 5 and Year 9 children are participating in the Trends In International Mathematics and Science Study. Audio

Geodesy is the study of the shape and size of the earth, and it underpins systems such as the Global Navigation Satellite System and allows very accurate surveying of major infrastructure projects Audio

A mathematical biologist who encourages his students to fall in love with maths; Air New Zealand about to say goodbye to the 747; an asteroid flew over us this morning just 40,000 kilometres away; and… Audio

James Sneyd is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Auckland. He is known internationally for his research in mathematical biology and physiology, and is the co-author of two… Audio

Researchers are using brain activity to control robots and the technology may one day help patients with stroke or spinal injury Audio