Science

An emerging way of treating cancer is on the agenda when scientists from 27 countries gather in Wellington this week to share the latest advances in nanotechnology and ion beam technology. Audio

Kathryn Ryan talks with 22 year old Auckland University honours student Tessa Morgan, who's won a lucrative scholarship to Cambridge University, to research a PhD in palliative care. Audio

An American company collected women's tears outside an Auckland movie theatre today, in the hope it can use them to develop new test for breast cancer. Video, Audio

Are many of us not seeing the wood… or the trees? ‘Plant blindness’ is a phrase used to describes the general failure of modern people to notice the plants around them. Audio

Lucy Stewart has always wanted to know if there is any form of life on other planets... unfortunately there's no way she can get to Jupiter's moon Europa to see if there is bacterial life under the… Audio, Gallery

Kim Hill talks to Ishaya monks Greg Hopkinson and Sally Lewis, who teach ascension meditation in New Zealand, and have co-produced the new documentary, Choice, which shows people finding peace through… Audio

A group of New Zealand scientists have managed to get a glimpse of some of the far away galaxies for the first time. Video, Audio

A new book, Protecting Paradise, investigates the science of 1080, its use in protecting native wildlife in New Zealand, and the wider issue of science denial and science reporting in the media. Audio

Professor Rick Shine from the University of Sydney has recently been awarded the Australian Prime Minister's Prize for Science for his innovative research helping protect the country's native animals… Audio

Toxicologist Paul Quigley discusses the effects of an energy drink and alcohol mix. Audio

A Canterbury university professor managed to get his paper accepted to present at a nuclear physics conference despite it being nonsensical. Audio

When it comes to parenting, have we become too obsessed with being clean and worrying about children getting sick from all of the germs they might pick up? Audio

Friedemann Freund thinks he's on the trail of the holy grail of seismology - a way to accurately predict earthquakes. His theory is that just before an earthquake the stress put on rocks cause them to… Audio