Science

A New Zealand company has come up with a world's first way of warning drivers about icy-roads up ahead. Audio

Astronomer Grant Christie tells the Panel what to expect in this part of the world as the Northern Hemisphere braces itself for a stunning meteor shower light show. Audio

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Zooniverse is the website that's enlisting the eyes and brains of hundreds of thousands of ordinary people to do the grunt work for major science projects. At Zooniverse.org volunteers… Audio

Astronauts on the International Space Station have taken their first bites of space-grown lettuce, which grows 26 times faster in orbit than it does down on earth. Audio

To Australia, where the search for a pill to stop you getting fat just took a big step forward. Audio

Actor Alan Alda isn't a doctor, but he played one on TV for 11 years using medical jargon most of us can't understand as Hawkeye on MASH. Now he helps doctors and scientists connect with the public… Audio

Professor Emerita in Science Communication at the University of Otago Jean Fleming, on (quirky) human anatomy - the epididymis, the tubal system that the sperm mature in, after they leave the testis.

Just over 40 years ago James Burke predicted the rise of personal computers would lead to a future where the whole world was interconnected. Today he's predicting an even bigger technological… Video, Audio

Chris Smith of The Naked Scientists. Scientists have uncovered the trigger that helps organs, skin and tissue regrow rather than form a scar. Also, how the earliest multi-cellular lifeforms… Audio

Emmy Award-winning director, writer and producer whose new documentary, Belief: the Possession of Janet Moses, is screening throughout the country at the New Zealand International Film Festivals. Video, Audio

Environmental scientist Lin Roberts argues that nature's ecosystem services are good for our well-being as well as the planet Audio

New Plymouth has more pockets of urban bush than any other NZ city, and ecologists study them to improve the success of ecological restorations Audio

Geologists are using a cannon, a trebuchet and silly putty wrapped in condoms to investigate volcanic ballistics and better understand volcanic eruptions Video, Audio

The exact source of a diamond-bearing rock has been found - with A.Prof Marco Fiorentini, School of Earth and Environment from the University of Western Australia. Audio

Lord Byron's daughter, Augusta Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace, designed the blueprint for the first computer in the 1840s, in collaboration with Charles Babbage, but they both died before it… Audio, Gallery

Dr Zanna Clay from the University of Birmingham has been studying wild bonobo apes, one of our closest primate relatives, since 2007. Latest research shows they have communication skills which were… Audio

Siouxsie Wiles discusses what our top scientists are saying about the future of science in New Zealand - will it be private companies driving our innovation? Audio