Science

AgResearch says it's confident the work it's currently doing won't be stopped or slowed after making 21-percent of its science technicians redundant. Audio

International Panda expert Dr Edith MacDonald is looking at whether Wellington Zoo can viably support giant panda bears, while educating children around the country on conservation. Lynda… Audio, Gallery

Professor Patrick Hudson is a psychologist and one of the world's leading authorities on the human factor in the management of safety with nearly 30 years experience in a variety of high-hazard… Audio

City planners are taking lessons from an Australian ant. Audio

Archaeologists digging at an ancient city in Greece, have discovered the grave of an ancient warrior, believed to be 3500 years old. The find could provide clues about the dawn of European… Audio

A team of researchers led by Professor Ted Dinan of University College Cork has found that people taking a specific kind of probiotic bacteria experienced reduced stress levels and also an improvement… Audio

Dr Chris Smith with news of some very old Australian rocks. Plus how sound waves can improve a medicine's effectiveness, and are first borns really any brighter than their siblings? Audio

From SSRIs to black cohosh, we look at some of the alternatives to Hormone Replacement Therapy with menopause specialist Dr Bev Lawton. Audio

DoC's threatened species ambassador, Nicola Toki, joins us for our weekly spot where we focus a bit of time on the plight of the less attractive threatened native species. This week it's the knobbled… Audio

A woman's acute sense of smell may lead to a new way of detecting Parkinson's disease. Audio

And listening to that is Dr David Wells, a principal scientist in the reproductive team at AgResearch. Audio

A report on the first fifteen years of genetically-engineered animals in New Zealand claims the experiments have been an expensive failure. Audio

Ecologist Cilla Wehi hopes that the hair and bones of kuri, or now extinct Maori dog, might hold clues to what they ate Audio

Next generation printable and flexible solar cells, made with new materials, are part of a clean-energy revolution Audio

Scientists set fire to blocks of wilding pines to study whether chemicals used to control the weedy trees change the fire hazard. Audio, Gallery