Science
The virus hunter and the rare plant
Virus hunter and botanist Paul Guy has been called in to help threatened native cress plants that are being infected by three different brassica viruses.
AudioTuning into whale song
NIWA marine ecologist Kim Goetz is setting up acoustic monitoring stations in Cook Strait to eavesdrop on whales and dolphins as they migrate through New Zealand waters. Audio
Tuning into whale song
NIWA marine ecologist Kim Goetz is setting up acoustic monitoring stations in Cook Strait to eavesdrop on whales and dolphins as they migrate through New Zealand waters.
AudioMicrodosing: hallucinogenics for health
Why are some Silicon Valley creatives regularly taking tiny doses of psychedelics? We ask American psychologist and psychedelic research pioneer Dr James Fadiman, who is studying the practice of… Audio
$133m AgResearch restructure gets go-ahead
AgResearch's controversial restructure has been approved by the government, despite costing $33m more than first proposed.
AgResearch shakeup hits Invermay
About 200 AgResearch workers will be relocated over the next four years as part of a major shakeup at the Crown Research Institute. Audio
Whale survey canned due to loss of funding
The Department of Conservation's annual whale survey in Cook Strait has had to be canned after it lost private funding for the survey. For the past 8 years, the oil and gas company OMV has paid for… Audio, Gallery
Why some music gives us goosebumps
It's that feeling when you hear a certain passage of music, when a shiver runs up your spine, or you get goosebumps all over your arms and legs. The experience is called frisson, which is French for… Audio
Scientists prepare for Lake Taupo eruption
There is only a small chance the volcano that is now Lake Taupo will erupt, but researchers are planning for a worst case scenario in case it does.
Extent of coral death at Great Barrier Reef revealed
Scientists estimate that mass bleaching, has on average, killed thirty five per cent of corals on the Great Barrier Reef. Audio, Gallery
Genetics and Disease
Humans think they’re sophisticated but have fewer genes than a banana. With two percent of our genome encoding proteins, scientists are turning to junk DNA to determine the chance of heart disease and… Audio
Royal textiles shattered by time
How important is clothing as a reference to time and place, and what can garments tell us about the people who wore them and the society in which they lived? The Otago Museum houses millions of… Audio
Naked Science
Dr Chris Smith of The Naked Scientists with news of a study on mice that's showing how some cancers can be stopped in their tracks. Also a second as a unit of time measurement could soon mean… Audio
Tech: Budget 2016
Peter Griffin on what Budget 2016 means for the local science, research and technology sectors. Also Australia's planned "three strikes" law for alleged copyright infringers grinds to a halt, as the… Audio
Controlled crying - does it work?
'Controlled crying', the method tried by many parents of leaving babies to cry themselves to sleep is a safe and effective way to get babies to sleep well, according to Dr Michael Gradisar of Flinders… Audio
Richie Poulton: 40 years of Dunedin health and development
Kim Hill talks to the Director of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study, which has followed the lives of more than 1000 people born in that city in 1972 and 1973. A four-part… Audio
Kip Thorne: interstellar activity
Kim Hill talks to the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology, and co-founder of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory. He is in… Audio
Finding dinosaurs in Antarctica
More than a hundred years ago on his fatal expedition to the South Pole Robert Falcon Scott and his unlucky team discovered the very first fossils in Antarctica while trekking over the Transantarctic… Audio
Cook Strait Whale Survey scrapped for 2016
The Cook Strait Whale Survey will not go ahead this year after a corporate sponsor pulled out and the Department of Conservation was unable to cover the costs Audio
