Science

Avionics engineer with the European Space Agency, which built and tested the Rosetta space craft that landed a robot on a comet in November 2014. Audio

The world's first wave power station connected to the grid is up an running in Western Australia, where it is supplying energy to the country's largest naval base. But in New Zealand several planned… Audio

Parry Guilford and his team are researching the genetics and chemistry of lobular breast cancer with the aim of discovering new drugs to treat it Audio

University of Auckland volcanologist Jan Lindsay discusses the DEVORA project and its aim to assess volcanic hazard and risk for Auckland's metropolitan area. Audio

Why (as a cosmological physicist), Royal Society University Research Fellow Dr Tony Padilla is declaring that the universe is on the brink of collapse, and accordingly, how this outcome may eventuate.

Biologist Ken Tustin has a new lease on life as new cameras installed in parts of Fiordland could capture moose he thinks are still living there. Audio

What happens to a body when it starts to decompose is not a subject many people want to think about, but for forensic scientists like Shari Forbes, who is setting up Australia's first body farm, a… Audio

An international project to map the dark matter in our universe has released its first data. Audio

In a new take on exposing the consequences of climate change, two scientists have set out on a journey to Paris for the Sustainable Innovation Forum in December. Audio

Overnight, Auckland-based Rocket Lab has unveiled a world's first. It's what they say is the first ever battery-powered rocket engine. The engine was announced at the United States Space Symposium… Audio

New Zealand scientists have discovered 46 genes which they say could potentially help predict patients' individual chances of surviving melanoma. Are some people more susceptible to the placebo… Audio

40 per cent of our native birds are considered threatened or at risk of extinction. Native plants fare no better, and 85 per cent of native lizards are threatened. Marie Brown is a policy analyst for… Audio

A report commissioned by the Ministry of Health has found Canterbury residents are unlikely to suffer any health risks from asbestos exposure during the canterbury earthquake repairs. The Report is a… Audio

The quest to find past life on Mars just got a whole lot more interesting. We've known that there's water on Mars, but now scientists believe they've found evidence of liquid water on Mars in… Audio

There were no universities or bank notes in New Zealand 150 years ago, but there was a science organisation. Audio

What's your poison? Toxicologist Dr Leo Schep tests for substances taken internally or applied externally that are injurious to health or dangerous to life and looks at the future for synthetic… Audio

Otago University's Dr Matthew Clarkson says ocean acidification triggered massive species extinction: a wake up call to the perils of a changing climate today. Audio

Climate scientists are using the spare capacity of thousands of home computers to zoom in on links between extreme weather events and climate change Audio