Science

With the Bug of the Year 2023 competition coming to the closing stages, it's not surprising that things are getting heated. In this breaking news story we learn how voting preferences have caused a… Audio

Claire Concannon joins researchers from the University of Waikato to learn about the spiders they are studying, and about just how weird spider reproduction can get. Audio

Science commentator Laurie Winkless looks at how planting more trees in cities can save lives, the new layer of partially-molten rock discovered under the Earth's crust and why putting decals on your… Audio

Aotearoa is one of only a handful of island countries well-placed to survive a Nuclear winter.

A new study published in the international journal Risk Analysis found we're one of five, including… Audio

Get a pair of binoculars handy because a rare green comet not seen for 50,000 years will be passing through our skies this week. 

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is currently visible in the northern… Audio

Professor of quantum physics Michelle Simmons believes new worlds will open up to humanity if we better understand how nature works at an atomic scale. In June her team at Silicon Quantum Computing at… Audio

Chris Rodley is the CEO of Snap Group and the chair of 'Teem Fish' a company that has created the'Teem fish' camera, a tool that has the potential to end unsustainable fishing. But how big is the… Audio

As Auckland cleans up, ideas about how to cope with increasingly intense rainfall have been pouring in.

Experts have been calling for - for example - a so-called sponge city to soak up water using… Audio

How are your new year's resolution going? If you've already given up on them, you're not alone; researchers have found that most people have abandoned their resolutions and slipped back into old… Audio

Dunedin City Council is now the proud owner of a 23-million year old lake bed

While the lake has long since dried up, Foulden Maar is a nationally significant fossil site, and will now be protected… Audio

A marine heatwave in Fiordland is thought to be responsible for the bleaching of millions of sea sponges. Marine biologist Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, James Bell led a trip to… Audio

What do marine biologists get up to? Some Evans Bay Intermediate school students are learning all about it at the Victoria University Coastal Ecology Lab. Claire Concannon tags along to listen in, and… Audio

Claire Concannon tags along on a school group visit to the Wellington University Coastal Ecology Lab, and finds out about a widely abundant sea creature. Audio