Science

The bad news about sugar consumption keeps coming - this time it's being linked to potential brain damage. Now a new study on rats led by an Australian research team found that the ones which were… Audio

Tens of thousands of sharks are migrating on the coast of Florida, just a stone's throw away from the shoreline. Florida Atlantic University biological sciences professor Stephen Kajiura, has been… Audio

This week, science commentator Dr Siouxsie Wiles explains why it's better for retirees to keep up their book clubs and social groups, and talks about sexism in coding and advances in medical 3D… Audio

A new technique in the treatment of cancer has produced extraordinary results in a small group of terminally ill patients. Audio

Former Mt John University Observatory superintendent Alan Gilmore raises our gaze to the bodies floating in space, and the (yet to be discovered) ninth planet of our solar system. Audio

Food scientist Don Otter and wife Kirsten have decamped from the Manawatu across the Pacific to Wisconsin, where there is snow and the US presidential primaries. Plus cheese. Lots and lots of cheese. Audio

According to GeoNet here were two moderate aftershocks, measuring magnitude 3.6 and 3.9, and one strong aftershock measuring 4.2 at 6.30 following yesterday's quake. Audio

Paul Falkowski studies how the humble microbe has shaped human history in his book 'Life's Engines' (Princeton University Press). Audio

John Ashton of the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology at the Otago School of Medical Sciences looks at how the popular asthma reliever Ventolin works. Audio

Naked Science with Dr Chris Smith with news that researchers in the UK have used a cancer drug to block the process in the brain that leads to Alzheimer's disease. Also the severity of a dose of… Audio

Robin McKie of The Observer has been looking at gene edited crops. These may soon be blocked by EU regulators who are deciding if gene edited plants qualify as genetically modified organisms. Audio

Professor Jack Feldman of UCLA and his team have just identified the part of the brain that transforms a normal breath into a sigh, a discovery that could help to treat people with breathing… Audio

Former director of the National Earthquake Centre in Italy, who was tried and convicted of manslaughter after the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake, then acquitted by the Italian Supreme Court of all charges… Audio

Emeritus Professor at the University of Cumbria who teaches at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, and Chairman of Council of the Clan Gregor Society of Scotland, co-ordinating the Clan… Audio

Canadian small-scale market gardeners visiting New Zealand on the Six Figure Farming Tour, outlining their replicable system for profitable, small-scale intensive growing of organic produce. Audio

Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Canterbury, discussing the announcement of the first direct detection of gravitational waves, and the New Zealand connection… Audio

Renowned mathematician Roy Kerr who in 1963 solved Einstein's equations for black holes on the detection of gravitational waves which proves spinning black holes exist. Audio

Scientists have proved the existence of gravitational waves - ripples in the fabric of space and time. Zach Korth is one of the scientists who's been working on the project in Livingston, Louisiana. Audio

A hundred years after Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity, scientists have proved the existence of gravitational waves - ripples in the fabric of spacetime. Cardiff University… Audio