Science

Professor of Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health Institute of Veterinary Animal and Biomedical Sciences at Massey University, and director of the university's Infectious Disease Research Centre.

A new study suggests it only takes a very small amount of climate change for Antarctic glaciers to thin at a rapid rate. Audio

Massey University soil scientists are investigating how taking cows off paddocks during certain times of the year could significantly reduce the amount of nitrate leaching into waterways. Audio

Light is crucial to the creatures that live on the ocean floor around Antarctica, but they have to get by without it for several weeks. NIWA marine ecologist Vonda Cummings explains how. Video, Audio

Tea bags containing red and green tea leaves have been buried in the soil for three months, to give insights into tussock grassland ecosystems and how they are being affected by climate change Audio

A group of young New Zealand is heading to Paris as part of the official Youth Delegation to observe the UN climate talks. Video, Audio

Research published today provides the first geological evidence for the potential of runaway ice loss in Antarctica. Audio

Merlin Tuttle is a photographer with difficult subjects. His quarry are extremely fast, small and normally only come out when it's dark. Bats. While trying to get the best snap Merlin Tuttle has… Audio, Gallery

Last week was worldwide antibiotic resistance week with the prestigious medical journal the Lancet publishing new research on the a new form of antibiotic resistance to the last class of antibiotics… Audio

Steve Silberman is an American journalist who writes about technology for Wired magazine and the New Yorker. His new book 'Neurotribes' is the first popular science book to win the Samuel Johnson… Audio

Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University on how group singing can help people to bond more quickly than other pastimes. Audio

Former Mt John University Observatory superintendent Alan Gilmore raises our gaze to the bodies floating in space; the latest results from Pluto via the New Horizons spacecraft, plus how to prepare… Audio

Dean Crick of Colorado State University is trying to find better ways to treat the bacterial disease tuberculosis. Audio

Fellow of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Distinguished Professor at University of Maryland, fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute, and joint winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for… Audio

The prickly dogfish is a small deepsea shark with very rough skin. Shark skin is made from 'dermal denticles' which are like teeth Audio