Science
Our Changing World for Thursday 19 April
It's been a year since myrtle rust arrived in New Zealand - what impact is is having, and what we can learn from Australia and Hawaii's experiences with this invasive plant killer. Audio
Govt plans tax credit for research and development
The government is planning to introduce a 12.5 percent tax credit for research and development by next year.
What lurks deep in the southern fiords
What lurks in our seldom explored Fiordland waters? A Victoria University research team is on a mission to find out. They have spent ten days exploring the waters of Doubtful, Dusky and Breaksea… Video, Audio
Science commentator Kathy Campbell
Professor Kathy Campbell is a geologist, paleoecologist and astrobiologist at the University of Auckland. Today she joins Kathryn Ryan from the SETICon 2 convention in California, discussing the… Audio
Nights Science
Prof. Shaun Hendy director of Te Punaha Matatini at the University of Auckland joins us again - tonight he's looking at how the thermal radiation absorbed by CO2 and other greenhouse gases gets… Audio
Why Jamie McAuley gets sent dead stoats in the mail
Jamie McAuley is a Masters student in the University of Otago's Zoology Department, who is studying the diets of alpine stoats to help conservation efforts.. Audio, Gallery
Nasa planet-hunter set for launch
The US space agency is about to launch a telescope that should find thousands of planets beyond our Solar System.
DHBs struggle to give bowel cancer tests on time
Some district health boards are struggling to provide a key bowel cancer test on time. Colonoscopies are needed to diagnose bowel cancer, which kills more than 1200 people a year. DHBs are expected to… Audio
Government not using a test it admits is "essential".
The Government now admits it's "essential" to use a new, wide-ranging test to assess the long term health impacts of firefighting foam contamination. Despite this, it isn't using this test at all. Audio
Katharina Weischede: slimy business
Katharina Weischede is a slime princess with a successful business. The 11-year-old Auckland schoolgirl is an internet sensation with her slime-making videos and sells her slimy wares around the… Audio
Choman Hardi - Considering the Women
Choman Hardi was born in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1974. During the 80s her family fled Iraq after Saddam's forces attacked the Kurds with chemical weapons. In 1993, Hardi was granted refugee status in… Audio
Climate change in the Pacific – what's really going on?
The effects of climate change on the lands of the Pacific are more complicated than tiny islands disappearing into the sea, says Auckland University professor Paul Kench. His team have discovered… Audio
NZ's first native sea lion breeding colony in 150 years
For the first time in more than 150 years, a new breeding colony of New Zealand sea lions - rapoka - has been established on mainland New Zealand. The new colony on Stewart Island of the endangered… Audio
Seabird hotspot - the Poor Knights Islands
A team of seabird experts experience the joys and challenges of counting Buller's shearwaters on the predator-free Poor Knights Islands. Audio
Seabird hotspot - the Poor Knights Islands
A team of seabird experts experience the joys and challenges of counting Buller's shearwaters on the predator-free Poor Knights Islands.
AudioOur Changing World for 12 April 2018
The Northern New Zealand Seabird Trust is shining a spotlight on seabird diversity in the Hauraki Gulf - including Buller's shearwaters that breed on the Poor Knights Islands. Audio
Waiting four years for a glitch in space
A team of scientists from Auckland and Tasmania has finally seen what is known as a stellar glitch after monitoring the Vela Pulsar neutron star for some four years. Audio
Eric London and the first ever dinosaur tooth
It looks like a bit of wood, but it tells a much bigger story of immigration and inspiration. A story as big as a dinosaur. Audio
Hot, Hot Summer
Dr Sam Dean NIWA's Chief Scientist for Climate, Atmosphere and Hazards joins us to talk about the science of our long hot summer. Audio
Not your usual fossil hunter, Lee Berger
Professor Lee Berger is a world renowned palaeoanthropologist and explorer who has been hailed for discovering not just one - but two new species of human ancestors in South Africa; Australopithecus… Audio
