Science
IQ tests: what can they tell us?
Stuart Ritchie is a postdoctoral fellow in cognitive ageing at the University of Edinburgh who calls IQ tests "...some of the most reliable and valid instruments in all of psychological science". He's… Audio
Marc Wilson: Ego Depletion
Jim Mora talks to the Associate Dean at the School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, about the research studies of Roy Baumeister and Dianne Tice into ego depletion and willpower. Audio
Susan David: emotional agility
Jim Mora talks to the founder and co-director of the Harvard-affiliated Institute of Coaching, and the CEO of management consultancy Evidence Based Psychology, whose new book is Emotional Agility: Get… Audio
Gary Small: diabetes and Alzheimers
Jim Mora talks to the director of the UCLA Longevity Center at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, and one of the world's leading innovators in science and technology. Audio
Flicking the switch for electric cars
A switch to electric transport could go a long way towards reducing New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions. Veronika Meduna takes a road trip with other electric car owners. Audio
Flicking the switch for electric cars
A switch to electric transport could go a long way towards reducing New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions. Veronika Meduna takes a road trip with other electric car owners.
AudioThar she goes! On the tail of the Kermadec humpback whales
Satellite tagging has revealed that humpback whales that breed in Oceania socialise at Raoul Island in the Kermadecs and has shown where in Antarctica they go to feed. Audio
Thar she goes! On the tail of the Kermadec humpback whales
Satellite tagging has revealed that humpback whales that breed in Oceania socialise at Raoul Island in the Kermadecs and has shown where in Antarctica they go to feed.
AudioNematodes from the deep
Sediment samples collected from 6,000 - 9,000m deep in the Kermadec Trench were teeming with tiny nematode worms – over 100 new species were collected from just four samples. Audio
Nematodes from the deep
Sediment samples collected from 6,000 - 9,000m deep in the Kermadec Trench were teeming with tiny nematode worms – over 100 new species were collected from just four samples.
AudioSurvivors - New Zealand's tiny native frogs
After 35 years of counting threatened Archey's frog on the Coromandel Peninsula, Ben Bell has seen their numbers crash due to the chytrid fungal disease, and the population slowly recover. Audio, Gallery
Survivors - New Zealand's tiny native frogs
After 35 years of counting threatened Archey's frog on the Coromandel Peninsula, Ben Bell has seen their numbers crash due to the chytrid fungal disease, and the population slowly recover.
AudioDrugs and warfare
From Vikings high on mushrooms to soldiers on speed in Vietnam... Historian Lukasz Kamienski traces the relationship between drugs and war. Audio
Real Life CSI - Dion Sheppard
Crime scene investigation programmes have exploded on our tv screens, over the past few years. And now New Zealand has its own. Forensics NZ has started on Prime recently, so we thought we'd talk to a… Audio
Earth Wobble
Surendra Adhikari on his research into the causes of the shift in the earth's axis. Audio
Designing healthier low-cost bread
How can we make healthier low-cost bread? A team at the University of Otago, in Wellington, has studied bread design from the perspective of reducing the risk of heart disease, while keeping… Audio
Science commentator Siouxsie Wiles
Surgery for back pain. Analysis of the pitch of babies cries. The Venus Express probe. Audio
The science of aquaponics
18 year old Georgia Lala is a keen gardener but when her family moved to an Auckland apartment above an antique shop she couldn't find the space to grow plants. But after a trip to Disneyland she had… Audio
Scientists to spend four weeks in Antarctic winter
And a group of New Zealand scientists are undertaking winter field research with a real difference -- they will spend four weeks in the perpetual darkness of Antarctica. Audio
Kiwi scientists plan world-first winter research in Antartica
Five New Zealand scientists' research in the middle of the Antarctic winter could be applied to a manned trip to Mars.
