Science

New Zealand is home to the world's only luminescent freshwater limpet, which lives among the rocks in North Island streams. Audio

February 2016 will mark the 175th anniversary of the discovery of the Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf. Preparations to mark the discovery are already underway. Philippa Ross, the… Audio

New Zealand fish with Stella McQueen, self-confessed native fish geek, author and field worker... freshwater mussels as well as a freshwater limpet that secretes glowing mucus when disturbed. Audio

New research has found that New Zealand has a tsunami 'blind spot' and it's our west coast. Audio

Reporter Steve Wilde joins us again from Wanaka Audio

NASA is preparing to launch a gigantic super balloon from Wanaka in a test to see whether the area can be used for experiements into the future. Audio

Naked Science with Dr Chris Smith and an amazing new technique for 3D printing that's 100 times quicker than today's technology. Audio

Jaap de Roode from Emory University in the United States is a biologist studying how a whole host of animals from chimps to insects (including Monarch butterflies) use plants to self-medicate. Audio

If you're prescribed antibiotics can you just stop taking them when you feel better? With Dr Richard Everts, a medical microbiologist and specialist in infectious diseases in Nelson. Also Dr Mark… Audio

Professor Frances Ashcroft is a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford and director of OXION, a training and research programme on the physiology of ion channels, the proteins… Audio

This programme marks the 50th anniversary of Scott Base, New Zealand's science station in Antarctica, which was established in 1957. Audio

The kaka from Zealandia Sanctuary are an urban success story, but they are developing lead poisoning, probably from chewing roofing nails and old lead paint. Audio

Massey University zoologist Anne Wignall explains how web-building spiders use vibrations to communicate and to make sense of their world. Audio

A new study shows that yellow-eyed penguins colonised New Zealand within just a few decades of the Waitaha penguin becoming extinct Audio

A gravimeter is an instrument that measures local gravity and Mikkel Andersen is developing one that uses atoms instead of springs or light Audio