Biology

This year's coveted 'Major Contribution to the Understanding of Death Award' was presented to British pathology museum curator Carla Valentine, who is responsible for about 300 preserved human brains… Audio

Year 12 student at Orewa College, whose presentation, Synthetic Biology - Engineering the Future, won her the Secondary category and Premier Award at the 2015 Sir Paul Callaghan EUREKA! Awards. Audio

The action of many human organs is now being accurately simulated outside the body in the lab. Professor Donald Ingber of Harvard University and his team developed these 'organs on a chip'. Video, Audio

Dr Chris Smith of the Naked Scientists. Do women change colour when they ovulate? Also could antibiotic use in childhood be making us heavier in later life? Audio

How did life begin? That's 'The Vital Question' biochemist Nick Lane poses in his new book. Audio

Ex-pat Kiwi Rob Knight looks at allergies, obesity and acne - conditions that may be caused, and someday cured, by the microscopic life inside us. His TED book 'Follow Your Gut: The Enormous Impact of… Audio

Biologist Ken Tustin has a new lease on life as new cameras installed in parts of Fiordland could capture moose he thinks are still living there. Audio

The British science writer David Bainbridge turns his attention to the origins of female body shape in his new book 'Curvology'. Audio

We look at the UK government's decision overnight to allow 3 person IVF - what it means, and why some fear it could lead to designer babies. Audio

Professors of physics (Al-Khalili) and molecular genetics (McFadden) at the University of Surrey, who collaborated on the new book, Life on the Edge. Audio

Justin O'Riain is a South African Professor of Biology who's an expert on wildlife wars - the clash between human habitats and animals in the wild, and the drivers of the conflict. Based at the… Audio

Since he discovered a colony of fairy prions breeding on the sea cliffs of St Clair, Graeme Loh has provided artificial burrows and monitored the small seabird population Audio

Amy Yewdall is trying to create functional nanowires from self-stacking protein rings which may one day be used in nanomachines Audio

American marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols on the calming influence of wild water. Audio

In 'The Story of the Human Body' Harvard evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman writes a book about how the human body has evolved over millions of years. Audio

Two researchers at the University of Missouri have shown that plants may in fact be able to detect sound. Heidi Appel and Rex Cocroft recorded the sound of a cabbage butterfly caterpillar chewing a… Audio

University of Canterbury scientists are developing a device to microinject individual biological cells automatically Audio