Science

Al Gilmore from Mt John Observatory discusses last night's spectacular astral phenomenon. Audio

An app to make life easier for botanists is out today. Audio

Geologists have discovered that the Earth's inner core may in fact have its own even smaller core within it. Audio

Julia Childs knew it, French chefs know it, and it'll come as absolutely no surprise to dieters. Audio

Research from Otago University has revealed new information on a phenomena called a 'biological transition event'. That's where one species replaces another. In this case the animal in question is the… Audio

Prof. Mark Apperley from the University of Waikato exposes how computers switch us on, the computer science behind computer games. Audio

How an extreme weather event is remembered depends if other similar events are remembered as well - with Professor of Environmental History Georgina Endfield and Social Sciences Research Fellow Lucy… Audio

Every time Auckland couple Sue and Scott Tindale throw their fishing lines over the side, they are trying to hook yet another record. And with over 200 approved and pending world records to their… Audio

Sean Brady of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at The Rockefeller University in New York is trying to find the next generation of anti-cancer drugs and antibiotics by examining soil samples… Audio

Professor Leslie Lyons of the University of Missouri is leading the 99 Lives project, a plan to sequence the domestic cat gene in order to fight the diseases that are affecting them, and us. Audio

Peter Etchells of Bath Spa University, and the science blog network coordinator for The Guardian, on the real story behind a scary headline linking smartphone and tablet use to brain damage in… Audio

Jeffrey Kluger of Time's covering a NASA mission involving two twins, that will study the effects that a year in space has on the human body. Audio

Director of the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces at the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, Switzerland, and one of the most highly cited chemists in the world. Audio

Teacher at Northwestern University in Chicago, whose new book, On Immunity: An Inoculation, explores vaccination and its history, and parenthood, public health and the body. Audio

New Zealand and Australian scientists head off on a six-week voyage to Antarctica to study top predators in the Southern Ocean. Audio

A series of underground explosions around the Wellington Region have allowed scientists to see the bottom of the tectonic plate that's responsible for the area's earthquakes. Audio

Whether playing at a higher altitudes has a quantifiable impact upon the fitness of soccer athletes. With A. Prof Rob Aughey from the Institute of Sport, Exercise & Active Living at Victoria… Audio

Work is well under way in a project to grow part of a human eye. The aim is to produce a retina. This could be used to help prevent degenerative blindness, one of the most common forms of vision loss… Audio

We look at the UK government's decision overnight to allow 3 person IVF - what it means, and why some fear it could lead to designer babies. Audio