Science

Talks about science in the series Life Matters. Audio

How useful is it to label some types of behaviour as diseases? Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago's Bioethics Centre Neil Pickering looks at when a disease is not really a disease. Audio

Taranaki's Waitara coastline is coming under intense scrutiny over the next few months, as the focus of a new Citizen Science project. It's part of a government initiative called A Nation of Curious… Audio

While most of us run from, scream at or squish spiders Te Papa's bug man Phil Sirvid just loves them. Phil spends his life working with and identifying spiders for the national museum. Audio, Gallery

Medical trials depend on people being prepared to try new drugs or to take part in experimental procedures which may not help them now, but might help others in the future. There are many reason not… Audio

Naturewatch is one of New Zealand's first and remains the largest Citizen Science project. Curious people around the country take photographs of flora and fauna and upload it onto the site, where the… Audio

Vic Arcus begins his weekly segment on the life of science. Audio

In a world with limited resources, can we find ways to salvage what's disappearing? Can we innovate our way out of a finite landscape? Five TED speakers explore ideas about living with less. Audio

There are international concerns about the world's dwindling bee population. Here in New Zealand the varoa mite has decimated numbers in parts of the country, and that's far from the only threat to… Audio

Sally Carson from the Portobello Marine Laboratory in Dunedin talks about her Marine Meter Squared project. Audio

Each year Te Papa's curators are sent photos and samples of fish that people can't identify, and sometimes that's because they haven't been seen before. So if you come across something fishy, and… Audio, Gallery

2015 will be remembered as one of the great breakthrough years in our understanding of Mars and beyond. Indications of liquid water on Mars, new insights into black holes and the dwarf planet Pluto… Audio

MetService severe weather forecaster Erick Brenstrum on how a day doesn't go by without some weather... that time it snowed in New Zealand and almost a million sheep died Audio

There's a regular visitor in the sky tonight, rarely seen, but definitely there. Audio

Gavin Ellis, Rod Oram, Lara Strongman and Siouxsie Wiles look back on the year that's been. Audio

Gavin Ellis, Rod Oram, Lara Strongman and Siouxsie Wiles look back on the year that's been. Audio

This week, science commentator Dr Siouxsie Wiles explains the nice and not so nice reasons Rudolph may have a red nose, and talks about a recent study in which researcher engineered an insect-killing… Audio