Science

With Dr Chris Smith. How cellphones can affect male fertility, and how to test blood for safe drug levels, using a cheap digital camera. Audio

We're tasting the pears of the future with research technician Natalie How and Dr Richard Volz of Plant and Food Research. Audio

Engineer and author who lives in Dunsandel, discussing wind energy. Audio

British science writer, whose work appears in Nature, New Scientist and Prospect, among others. His most recent book is Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler, and he… Audio

In this Spectrum programme, recorded in 1996, Alistair McAlpine joins Joan Wiffen on a fossil hunting trip in her favourite Hawke's Bay stream. Audio

A team of University of Otago researchers has developed an iPad app to help people practise sight-singing music at home. Audio

Three estuarine monitoring buoys have been installed in the Kaipara Harbour to identify sources of fine sediment pollution Audio

A tribute to Joan Wiffen, a self-taught palaeontologist who discovered New Zealand's first dinosaur bone in a Hawke's Bay streambed in the 1970s. Audio

A tribute to Joan Wiffen, a self-taught palaeontologist who discovered New Zealand's first dinosaur bone in a Hawke's Bay streambed in the 1970s. Audio

A team of University of Otago researchers has developed an iPad app to help people practise sight-singing music at home. Audio

A team of citizen scientists and retired space buffs is trying to bring an abandoned spacecraft back to earth more than 30 years after it was launched. With Keith Cowing is from the ISEE-3 reboot… Audio

NIWA has been measuring how wind speeds up across rough ground in the Belmont Hills with the aim of improving the building code Audio

Photonic Innovations is developing a toxic gas detector which uses laser spectroscopy Audio

Tsunami hazards for New Zealand were recently revised based on new knowledge about very large earthquakes on plate boundaries Audio