Science

The battle between the makers of 'natural' wines (which are ethically produced and preservative-free) and the $250 billion-dollar global wine industry is the "biggest conflict in the world of wine for… Audio

Geologists have discovered that the 2012 eruption of Havre volcano, on the Kermadec Arc, was the world's largest submarine volcanic eruption. Video, Audio

Michele Prinsep is a 'drug hunter' - she looks for potential pharmaceuticals in marine organisms and cyanobacteria. Audio

A Norwegian study of more than 730,000 standardised test results in men has found noticeable IQ decline since 1975. Audio

The University of Otago is trialing the use of intravenous high dose Vitamin C for patients with sepsis, because smaller clinical trials overseas have shown remarkable results. Audio

Science commentator Siouxsie Wiles reports on the link between removing tonsils and adenoids in childhood and the long-term risk of respiratory, allergic and infectious diseases; the case of a young… Audio

They only have a million brain cells compared to our billions, but bees are far from being mindless drones - they are, so far, the only insect that can comphrehend zero. Audio

The personal DNA information from saliva tests sent to ancestry.com is often sold on to private companies which could be pharmaceutical or funded by Google, says a medical sociologist. Audio

A stable of horses react to the a-mare-zing sounds of Bach, how listening to music at work alters your mind, NZSO with tenor Simon O’Neill is reviewed by Peter Hoar, Jazz Tui winner Umar Zakaria and…

Astronomer, planet-discoverer and Otago Museum director Dr Ian Griffin joins us to talk all things Mars. Audio

In the '90s, Mark Lynas was an anti-GMO activist, but over time, the British science writer came to question whether our fear of GE food is irrational. His latest book Seeds of Science argues that… Video, Audio

For the past 30 years Ron Nilsson has been trying to get conclusive scientific existence that the South Island kokako - a bird officially listed as extinct in 2007 - is alive. Audio

The founder and CEO of Rocket Lab, Peter Beck, is one of six medalists in this year's Sir Peter Blake Leadership Awards, announced June 8. Rocket Lab successfully launched its first rocket into orbit… Audio