Science

Claudia Hammond is a writer, broadcaster and psychology lecturer and in her new book Mind Over Money (Canongate) she looks into the psychology of money. Audio

Cardiologist and systems biologist Euan Ashley is Associate Professor of Medicine and Genetics at Stanford University in California. He is director of the Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease… Audio

A fossilised foot bone from an ancient human dating back 1.7 million years, shows signs of an agressive form of bone cancer. Audio, Gallery

Three leading eradication experts talk about Predator Free New Zealand 2050, including the social aspects of engaging communities and the need to develop new tools to better control rats, stoats and… Audio

Sara Dean and Beth Ferguson are American designers whose projects include using Twitter to help Jakarta residents know about floods, and creating accessible solar charging stations. Audio

The Health Ministry says vaping is safer than smoking and is moving to make e-cigarettes legal by the end of the year. Nine to Noon speaks to Ministry advisor Professor Hayden McRobbie. Audio

How do our brains change as we get older? Noelle finds out, with the help of a neuroscientist, a centenarian, and a Poet Laureate. Video, Audio

Richard Branson is one step closer to lift-off after Virgin Galactic secured an operating licence today for space tourism. Video, Audio

Dr Craig Radford of Auckland University's Institute of Marine Science has been recording some of the sounds that fish make and studying just how and why fish make them. Audio, Gallery

Alex Huth is a neuroscientist working on technology that can literally read your mind. Audio

Bennu is 500 metres wide, which means it is an object cabable of causing a global catastrophy and in 2135 it will pass between the earth and the moon. Audio

John Dunbar is an orthopaedic surgeon in Dunedin who - despite his initial misgivings over whether the mind can play a part in feeling well again - has seen first hand how much 'training the brain'… Audio

Kim Hill talks to Roxanne El-Hady, who won the 2016 Young Scientist of the Year Award in the UK while on a Nuffield Research Placement at Royal Holloway, University of London, for work reconstructing… Audio

Kim Hill talks to Dr David Galler, Intensive Care Specialist at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital for 25 years, and clinical director at Ko Awatea. He tells his story in the memoir, Things That Matter… Audio

Kim Hill talks to British journalist, author and broadcaster Alok Jha, whose science-related topics have included the history of meteorology, climate change politics, how much we should trust… Audio

The New Zealand population of South Georgian diving petrels has fewer than 150 individuals making it  one of the rarest breeding species in New Zealand Audio, Gallery