Navigation for Our Changing World

Our Changing World for Thursday 26 April 2007

  • Physiome Project

    9:32 PM.Louise Wallace finds out about the University of Auckland's Physiome Project. Audio

  • OECD environmental report

    9:18 PM.Dean Williams discusses the latest OECD Environmental Performance Review. Audio

  • Australian Synchrotron

    9:06 PM.Veronika Meduna catches up with New Zealand and Australian scientists at the new synchrotron near Melbourne. Audio

Science

Veronika Meduna gets a preview of the soon-to-open Australian Synchrotron in Melbourne, an electron accelerator which will be used by a number of New Zealand research groups, and talks to several New Zealanders who were involved in its construction.

Environment

Dean Williams speaks to the Chief Executive and Secretary for the Environment, Hugh Logan, and the Ministry for the Environment's manager in the reporting and review group, Julia Porter, about the OECD's Environmental Performance Review.

Health

Three years after the completion of the Human Genome Project, Louise Wallace talks to Peter Hunter, Merrin Tawhai and Mark Jacobs, researchers for the Physiome Project at the Institute of Bioengineering at the University of Auckland, to find out where genetic research is heading.