Science

The ExStream system allows biologists to study how river life responds to stresses such as sediment, nutrients, and changing water temperatures and flows Audio

Making the numbers add up is Dr Dillon Mayhew from Victoria University's School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research. An account of what it is like to actually work on a new mathematical… Audio

The Housing Minister, Nick Smith, presented a number of changes in Ashburton last Sunday, but the Evidence Based Seismic Strengthening Society says he's missing the point of what is wrong with the… Audio

From Otaki to London, Hamish Scott is a New Zealander who makes cars glow in the dark. His company, Pro-Teq Surfacing, has come up with an innovative re-surfacing method, that can be sprayed on cars… Audio

Rats and elephants are among the species which help each other. Audio

Dr Chris Smith on the colour red and its symbolic significance in social situations. Also a study in Australia looks at how our ears communicate with our brain to zone out certain sounds and tune in… Audio

Megan Thoemmes is studying face mites at North Carolina State University. Audio

Breeding New Zealand green-lipped mussels in the lab. Henry Kaspar is a mussel specialist at the Cawthron Institute, who's trying to improve aquaculture survival rates and selectively breed better… Audio

Nicola Twilley writes about age prediction websites for the New Yorker. Audio

Professor of Digestive Biomechanics at the College of Health, Massey University, Associate Investigator <http://www.riddet.ac.nz/our-people/professor-roger-lentle> at the Riddet Institute, and… Audio

Philip Ball writes on all sorts of science-related topics, including theories of colour, invisibility, and music. Eva catches up with him ahead of his talks at the Auckland Writers Festival and for… Audio

Professor Gerry Gilmore of the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. He is the principal investigator on Gaia project - a space observatory launched by the European Space Agency in 2013… Audio

A discussion held at 2015 New Zealand Association of Scientists annual conference, Going Public Audio

Archaeologist Atholl Anderson discusses the climate conditions and socio-political circumstances that led groups of Polynesian navigators to discover and settle in New Zealand Audio

Archaeologist Atholl Anderson explains why he thinks that the first people to make landfall in New Zealand were exiles escaping from conflict in their homelands Audio