Michelle Dickinson

The warmest ever superconductor; how mussels cement themselves to rocks; and how playing the computer game Tetris can block cravings. Audio

Bolts of lightning, explosions, fire - and turning a supermarket trolley into a speeding vehicle with fire extinguishers. An array of crazy science experiments of the like never seen in New Zealand… 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

Dr Michelle Dickinson - the winner of Prime Minister's award for science media communication is an expert in nanotechology, who is inspired by the powers of superheroes and uses her social media… Audio

Michelle Dickinson is Nanogirl, a superhero teaching kids that science is fun, and she has won the 2014 Prime Minister's Science Media Communication Prize Audio

There has long been a perception that science is a subject boys enjoy more than girls and one Auckland Nanotech scientist is trying to bust that myth by embarking on a 100-day project to make science… Audio

Michelle Dickinson uses diamonds to indent materials at the nano-scale, to test the mechanical properties of samples Audio