Science

Drew Berry is a biomedical animator who brings complex scientific ideas to life using animation. Video, Audio, Gallery

Cade Metz of Wired on the rush to develop alternative rubber sources, and the interest in the shrub guayule. Audio

Dr Chris Smith of the Naked Scientists on invisibility cloaks, new approaches to pain relief and combatting Alzheimer's disease. Audio

Pollination & Apiculture team leader at Plant & Food Research's Ruakura campus in Hamilton, who has trained his dog, Ollie, to sniff out underground bumble bee nests. Audio

Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Cambridge, and Professorial Fellow and Director of Studies in Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, at Newnham College, who has returned to New Zealand as… Audio

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Earth and Oceans, James Cook University, in Townsville, Australia, and part of the team that discovered Homo naledi, a human relative found in a cave system in… Audio

Landcare Research biocontrol scientists Ronny Groenteman and Bob Brown are looking at the potential of a mite discovered in some wasp nests to be a biocontrol agent to reduce wasp numbers in New… Audio, Gallery

From tomorrow thousands of children across New Zealand are being invited to learn about light, how it works and what it does, what it means for out future. Audio

Dr Angus McPherson is researching which are the best trees to plant to keep bees happy and healthy all year round. He's working with farmers particularly, and has a demonstration farm where he's… Audio

Dr Michael Gazzaniga has lead pioneering studies on patients with split brains, where the two hemispheres work completely separately from eachother. In the 1960's he was involved in studies of split… Audio

An expedition to east Antarctica's Totten glacier returns with evidence suggesting that east Antarctica may not be as resistant to melting as once thought. Audio

Ecologists at Victoria University have discovered that the invasive Argentine ants host a virus associated with bee deaths. Audio

Bees are in trouble and to get a better idea of might be contributing to colony loses, Landcare Research is calling on beekeepers to help with a national survey. Audio

Guy Warman, at the University of Auckland, explores how anaesthesia affects the body's biological clock and whether light therapy could help reduce sleep disruption post surgery. Audio

A greenhouse that is also a strict containment facility allows scientists to experimentally add apple genes to apple trees to speed up the breeding of new varieties Audio